MFSA Debate: Closing the Gender Gap in STEM
Date/Time
4/30/2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Eastern
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Eastern
Event Registration
Event Type(s)
MIT Free Speech Alliance Event
Event Description
On April 30, 2025, MFSA hosts the fifth in its series of MIT campus debates, on the issue of closing the gender gap in STEM
Location
Setting: In-Person
Wong Auditorium (Building E51-115)
70 Memorial Dr
Cambridge, MA 02139
UNITED STATES
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Wong Auditorium (Building E51-115)
70 Memorial Dr
Cambridge, MA 02139
UNITED STATES
click here for Google Maps
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Details
On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, the MIT Free Speech Alliance will host the fifth in our series of campus debates at MIT. This spring, two teams of debaters will argue the following resolution:
Resolved, We Must Close the Gender Gap in STEM
Affirmative Team: Jennifer Roecklein-Canfield Professor and Chair of Chemistry and Physics at Simmons College and Pamela R. McCauley, Dean of the School of Engineering at Widener University.
Negative Team: Christina Hoff Sommers Senior Fellow Emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute and Cory Clark Behavioral Scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and Executive Director of the Adversarial Collaboration Project.
Moderating this spring's debate is Linda Rabieh, Senior Lecture in the MIT Concourse Learning Community and a Co-Director of MIT's Civil Discourse Project.
This Spring's debate will be held at MIT's Wong Auditorium, and is free and open to the public. A registration page will be online shortly.
More information about the debate will be published on this page in the coming weeks; please email MFSA Executive Director Peter Bonilla with any questions.
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