There's nothing wrong with stating facts. The problem comes when people state facts in a way that implies some political or ethical conclusion that isn't justified. Like Larry Summers did.
You correctly complain about the moralistic fallacy, which is where people assume that the world must be way X because it's how they'd like it to be.
But you do that while committing the naturalistic fallacy, which is the assumption that what's natural (or what currently exists) is what's right.
And of course, you also highlight a very small number of facts, ignoring the millennia of oppression of women, biased educational systems, and a lot of cultural pressure that keeps women away from STEM fields. So what you're engaged in isn't some rational analysis of a problem; you're just using a few small points of data in isolation to justify your predetermined conclusion.
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There's nothing wrong with stating facts. The problem comes when people state facts in a way that implies some political or ethical conclusion that isn't justified. Like Larry Summers did.
You correctly complain about the moralistic fallacy, which is where people assume that the world must be way X because it's how they'd like it to be.
But you do that while committing the naturalistic fallacy, which is the assumption that what's natural (or what currently exists) is what's right.
And of course, you also highlight a very small number of facts, ignoring the millennia of oppression of women, biased educational systems, and a lot of cultural pressure that keeps women away from STEM fields. So what you're engaged in isn't some rational analysis of a problem; you're just using a few small points of data in isolation to justify your predetermined conclusion.