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From: roberta@bronze.UUCP (Roberta Taussig)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: women in engineering
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 12:18:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 12:18:23 1983
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Due to a series of apparently unrelated changes in organization and the
normal nomadic restlessness of engineers, I find myself about to become a
project leader of a design engineering team composed of myself and three
other women. All the management structure above me is male, and the other
project teams with which we will be working are almost exclusively male.
We will have no authorization to add personnel for at least six months, so
this situation will persist for at least that long. Technical abilities on
the team range from good to outstanding, and we will be generating assemblers
for microprocessors to support Tek's microprocessor development systems.

We've been kidding around about establishing an outpost of "feminist
engineering", but I'm wondering what, if any, will be the problems peculiar
to our situation. Does anyone have any experience with this? Advice?
Encouragement? Caveats?

Roberta Taussig
Tektronix
Beaverton, Oregon
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