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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Is Computing Gender Specific?
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Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 18:46:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 30 18:46:47 1983
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I wouldn't claim that computing is gender specific, although there does
seem to be an imbalance.  Here at Georgia Tech we have about 45 PhD
students in the program -- two of whom are female.  I believe that the
campus-wide ratio of male to female is something like 4 to 1; GaTech
is heavily into engineering.

I wonder if this all relates to what is known as "math anxiety"?
I've seen some published reports about girls not developing the
early background in math that boys do due to "math anxiety" (cause
unknown).  Anybody out there know more about this?  Does it apply?

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