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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Women's BOF in Phoenix?
Message-ID: <5807@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 14:04:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 14:04:37 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <866@pwcs.StPaul.GOV> dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner) writes:
>It is embarrasing to be in a field that appears to do such an
>impressive job of discrimination.

Oh, come on.  Just because there isn't the same ethnic distribution
within a profession as within a community at large does not prove
that anyone has been discriminated against.  I don't know why more
women haven't become UNIX professionals, but perhaps it's because
they're smarter than the rest of us.  Sheesh.