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Subject: Re: women in CS  query - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 05:12:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 16 05:12:57 1983
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smu!leff    Nov 14 19:49:00 1983

I have noticed that yes women have been increasing in the software
fields.

However, they tend not to be

a. hackers

b. procrastinators

c. inefficient

d. sloppy in testing and debugging.

In my firm we hired many men and women.  Many men did not work out
while we never had any trouble with the women.  The men who didn't work
out flaked out because they became bored with the job before it was
finished and became too involved with the operating system or neat
features or elegance to solve the problem the business needed solved.