MFSA Debate: Closing the Gender Gap in STEM
4/30/20257:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST
Location: Wong Auditorium (Building E51-115), 70 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139
Event Description
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 Lecturer 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.
More information about the debate will be published on our debate website, which will be regularly updated; please email MFSA Executive Director Peter Bonilla with any questions.
