Men Dominate Scrabble Tournaments, But That Doesn’t Mean Much

Does that explain the continued male majority in the physics and computer science departments of U.S. universities? This debate refuses to die, long after the Harvard president Larry Summers infamously floated the idea back in 2005. The author, Heather Mac Donald, points out that men have won all the world Scrabble competitions since these started in 1991, and that this doesn’t appear to be the result of any overt discrimination.