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From: jackson@curium.DEC (SETH JACKSON 297-4751)
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Subject: Re: Prejudice in graduate school
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 17:12:54 EST
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>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
>typically brighter and more determined than their colleagues, who don't like
>this.

My SO (gag, I hate that word!) works in an environment largely dominated
by men, and experiences a significant amount of sexist attitudes and remarks
directed at her by men she works with. She smiles, laughs it off and does her 
job. She's been quite successful. Other women I know react to these situations
by becoming defensive and alienating the men they work with. Of course, men
continue to disparage these women. These women are never accepted, and their 
success is limited.

In business as in academics, politics is part of the game, whether we like
it or not. If you don't play, you lose.
--
"If you plant ice, your gonna harvest wind"

				Seth Jackson