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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Prejudice in graduate school
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Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 23:50:53 EST
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In article <1690@ihlpg.UUCP> tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes:
>>      Don't *necessarily* dismiss (your or others') suspicions as paranoia.
>> In my experience, men are more prone to use this sort of tactic behind
>> womens' backs than directly. 
>
>I spent 15 years as a physicist (grad student, post-doc, and faculty) at
>three different institutions and I have NEVER heard any physicist, male
>or female, make any of the comments Adrian describes or anything
>remotely similar.  Anyone who did
>so would have been (correctly) censured.  I'm sure there are some
>Neanderthals out there, but "the norm".  Come on.  How about some names
>and places.  I don't believe you.

How about Harvard?  It has a very misogynist reputation at the graduate
level.  I know of one story first hand, and others second and third hand.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720