More on the women-in-science debate: According to the website Associated Content, Stanford study seems to disprove Larry Summers' suggestion that women may have less innate capacity for high-level science and math skills.

Stanford University psychologists Mary Murphy and Claude Steele have conducted a study to be published in a journal of the Association for Psychological Science that shows that the social and institutional organization of math, science and engineering environments play a significant role in contributing to gender ratio imbalance in maths, sciences and engineering performance and careers.

...Further Murphy, Steel and colleagues have conducted studies to test the hypothesis that it is environment and not innate traits that limit the numbers of women in these fields. Previous research into disparities between women's and men's academic choices have focused on biological and socialization explanations. The new study suggests that the environment and the situational cues of the environment are significantly important in the explanation for the differences between women and men in performance and representation in maths, sciences and engineering.

Somehow, one gets the feeling that this won't be the last word on the subject.