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From: linda@rtech.UUCP (Linda Mundy)
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Subject: Re: Re: career vs. relationships
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> In article <527@cisden.UUCP> john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) writes:
> >When I was majoring in math at the University of Colorado, about two thirds
> >of us students, undergraduates and graduates, were women.  The professors
> >were mostly men, though.

and Mathew Wiener, UCBerkeley, replies:

> Here at Berkeley about 35% of the undergraduates, 15% of the graduates,
> 5% of the post-docs and visitors, and 2% of the faculty in the math
> department are women.  I've seen several graduate classes with 0 or 1
> female students.

Very interesting statistics, wouldn't you say?

> 
> >So maybe the stereotype is mistaken?  (They are occasionally, I've noticed.)
> >Or was CU really abnormal in this respect?
> 
> No and yes.  There are good female mathematicians, but not many.  Only one
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> has had the ultimate honor: the eponymous adjective 'noetherian' has become
> so common one has to check one's context for its meaning.
> 
> (A math major, eh?  Peace and Good!)
> 
> ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

When I was an undergraduate (CS) at Berkeley, there was a flap over hiring a
woman professor in mathematics.  They decided against her, ostensibly because
she could not speak English well enough (forgive me, the details are hazy, it
was, uh, quite a few years ago -- I think she was Eastern European or Russian).
Anyway, I remember being somewhat incensed at that line of reasoning, as I had
just suffered through a math class given by a tenured professor who spoke such
broken English it was painful.  But that hadn't stopped them hiring HIM.
-- 

Disclaimer #1:  These are *only* my opinions.
Disclaimer #2:  These are only *my* opinions.

Linda Mundy	{ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!linda
		Relational Technology, Inc., Alameda, CA