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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
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Subject: Re: Women in computing  --  undergraduate registration problems
Message-ID: <594@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 12:19:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 12:19:10 1986
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References: <238@argon.kcl-cs.UUCP> <677@well.UUCP> <9787@amdcad.UUCP> <1028@dcl-cs.UUCP> <2008@orca.UUCP>
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In article <2008@orca.UUCP> kendalla@orca.UUCP (Kendall Auel) writes:
>My wife is currently studying physics, and had to learn programming as
>part of the curriculum. Being a software type myself, I encouraged her
>to take more CS classes. Her response can be paraphrased "CS is about
>as much fun as housework."
>
>Could it be that this is a pervasive attitude among women in science?


A sample size of 1. I think you may be onto something here - ask two
or three more people, and if any of them agree, I think you certainly
have every justification for calling the attitude "pervasive".
:-)

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					--MKR

If Man were meant to use the metric system, Jesus would have had
10 disciples.