He hasn't been fired yet. But he did say something awfully stupid, and as a person in a
management position, he has a differnt responsbility than someone who is one voice among many in the academic debate of a school.
As soon as i saw this story, i sent it to my sister, who's getting her PhD in genetics at Yale. She, and her PI (Primary Investigator, the faculty member in charge of a lab) and all the other female members of that lab had a good laugh over it. For Summers to make this comment reveals how little he knows about the field that he is supposed to have supervisory influence...his views have a role in hiring/funding, etc. Churchill has influence only to the extent that people sign up for his classes.