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Subject: Re: Re: computing and gender - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 14-Sep-83 08:45:22 EDT
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cfib!craig    Sep 13 10:11:00 1983


	I have had a radically different experience as a teaching fellow
at Harvard.  My experience was that women rarely signed up for the introductory
courses in computer science in the first place.  Many courses seem to be
populated almost exclusively by men.  

	I have not had the impression, though without seeing grading statistics
I wouldn't know, that the women who did take computer science courses generally 
did any better or worse than the men.  The overwhelming impression is that 
there were just a lot fewer of them.  This was despite some effort to make sure
that there were female TFs in the intro courses...

Craig Partridge
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