Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!nadel From: uunet!igor!rutabaga!jls@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: The problem in academia Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 02:59:05 GMT References: <1991Mar18.173443.23918@aero.org> <18589@cs.utexas.edu> <1991Mar28.154345.12953@psych.toronto.edu> Sender: uunet!igor!news@ncar.UCAR.EDU Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA Lines: 22 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Status: R Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org >It is not surprising that men are >threatened by the prospect of women being hired fairly on their >merits. It is not surprising that there is pressure on women not to >rock the boat. Hint: avoid overgeneralization, which saps your argument of credibility. SOME men may feel threatened. I do not. Indeed, as an employee of a small Silicon Valley startup, it is in my best interest that all coworkers be hired on the basis of their merits and on their merits only. As a struggling young company, we cannot afford anything less (my biggest argument against AA is precisely that it robs companies of the ability to MAKE this choice and hire only the most qualified). P.S. I was puzzled in the extreme by the complaint in the referenced article that women's studies were becoming more of an objective science and less of a political agenda. Isn't this precisely what any discipline that wants to be taken seriously as a science must do? Or would you place ideology over common sense? -- * The opinions expressed herein are my own, except in the realm of software * * engineering, in which case I borrowed them from incredibly smart people. * * * * Rational: cutting-edge software engineering technology and services. *