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From: mark%odin@ucsd.edu (Mark Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Examples of gender messages about technology
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Date: 11 Apr 90 01:51:49 GMT
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You probably know about this, and this is really fuzzy, and it maybe
alittle off target for you, but didn't MIT release a report about 7
years ago about experience of women student in the CS program.  I
remember reading it in CACM, or rather think I remember reading it
there.

Here is an incident from my Ph.D.  advisor that I find amusing though it
may show the effects of gender messages.  She and another woman faculty
member at Purdue help start a group for undergraduate women in computer
science (WICS).  At one of the meetings the need to raise money arose.
The money raising event that the student came up with was a "bake sale".
I think they were convinced to try something else, but not without
considerable struggle on the advisors' part.

Well, good luck, and I keep my eye out for things.

mark anderson