By John Leo Gender test at MIT A faculty committee report on bias seems biased itself Famous universities rarely issue reports pronouncing themselves guilty of serious long-term discrimination. The story was Page 1 news in the New York Times and other major papers. Biology Prof. Nancy Hopkins, whose complaints provoked the bias report, was called to the White House and posed beaming with the Clintons. It's hard to say, because the official report contains virtually no data at all.
Discrimination consists of a pattern of powerful but unrecognized assumptions. . . .
But the interviews are not in the report and neither is evidence of exclusion and its toll. Much of the text is devoted to the wonders of feelings-based reform, especially when accompanied by a placating shower of money. After the committee was formed and the dean responded, my life began to change. My research blossomed, my funding tripled. Now I love every aspect of my job.