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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Prejudice in graduate school
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 22:11:33 EST
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Summary: graduate school and funding

> I've seen a thoroughly competent woman physicist teased and ridiculed by men
> who didn't think she 'fitted in' and didn't want her to stay in the subject.
> Another man talked about a colleague's "personality, if women have a
> personality". In other subjects, several of my women friends have had great
> difficulty being taken seriously by their (mostly male) departments. They are

The biggest problem for women in graduate schools is discrimination in
receiving funding, such as fellowships and assistantships.  

Has anyone in this newsgroup ever seen a graduate school do an
affirmative action review of awards to female and male students?