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From: rob@dadla.UUCP (Rob Vetter)
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Subject: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
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Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 14:34:47 EDT
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In article <12515@amdcad.UUCP> linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer) writes:
>When I was in the M.S. program at Caltech I found that one group of
>men had formed a clique and never talked to me or to the other
>American woman in our class.
>		[...]
>                                   I very strongly suspected that
>these men's cliquishness existed in order to hide violations of the
>Caltech honor system.
>	[...]
>                      One woman I know was accepted into such a group
>after she did several things to show that she was one of them and could
>act as just as badly.

	This is not a MALE or primarily male thing.  Cheating is a
	HUMAN thing as your last example shows.
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