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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Prejudice in graduate school
Message-ID: <717@rti-sel.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 15:05:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 15:05:43 1986
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Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
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Summary: 

In article <12295@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) writes:

>>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.

It's starting to sound like some fields tend to be more sexist/racist
than others, and that there's also a great degree of variation within
a field. At this point, we can either talk statistics or individual
experiences: "40% of the faculty at the University of Slobbovia are
sexist, but I knew this one professor at U. Zonk that put the Slobbs
to shame..." I'm not sure we're going to be able to conclude anything
from all this except that sexism certainly exists in academia and that
some departments are worse/better than others...maybe it's time to
move on to other topics?

                        -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly