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From: hammy@mit-eddie.UUCP (J. Scott Hamilton)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.news.group,net.women.only
Subject: Re: I FOUND OUT WHAT NET.WOMEN.ONLY IS FOR!!!
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Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 13:11:14 EDT
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	Regarding the turnaround of men's treatment of women, I think a
generalization based on college life won't work to well.  Here at MIT,
it seems to me that many of the students (especially in the graduate
school) are chosen for their achivement rather than their social skills.
As a result, some of the higher achievers often have disabilities in a
social setting, and many seem to have poor interpersonal skills.
	An example of this is the situation in the EE&CS graduate
department.  Many women in this department (which has an extrememly poor
male/female ratio) worked on a joint paper to express their
dissatisfaction with the way they were treated as computer scientists,
because of their gender.  
	I guess my point is that the treatment a women receives in a
school environment depends on the characteristics of the student body at
that school.  Also I think that because of the type of males that do
well in CS are typically less socially inclined, it can make for a
poorer attitude towards women.

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						J. Scott Hamilton
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