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From: karen@randvax.UUCP (Karen Isaacson)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Prejudice in graduate school
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 12:10:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 12:10:25 1986
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In article <684@rti-sel.UUCP> wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) writes:
>In article <251@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> cheryl@batcomputer.UUCP () writes:
>
>>      No it is not.  I've seen male graduate students say
>>      of a fellow female graduate student, "she should be
>>      having kids by now."
>
>Jeez, Cheryl, I've been in graduate school in two disciplines
>(environmental sciences and computer science) and I've NEVER heard a
>male grad student say anything like that of a female student. And a
>grad student who did make a comment like that would have been shouted
>down by his fellow students, male and female alike. Maybe these people
>were deliberately pulling your chain ... or maybe the graduate
>students I've been around are a little more mature than the group you
>seem to know.

Well, when I was in graduate school a couple of the guys decided I must be
sleeping with the TA, my grades were so high!  (God forbid I might have
been doing the homework & learning the material better than they...)
And no one shouted them down when they spread the rumor, either.
Perhaps they thought it was funny???   Actually, these guys were quite
mature and if I were paranoid, I might think they did this deliberately.
(Sounds a little farfetched, to me, though...)  The net result was
an unfriendly TA, but no damage to my grades.
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                Karen Isaacson
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