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From: actnyc!jsb@uunet.UU.NET (The Invisible Man)
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Subject: Re: Women Wizards?
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Date: 15 Jul 88 15:12:37 GMT
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In article <12007@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> sri-unix!maslak@decwrl.dec.com (Valerie Maslak) writes:
)But Elaine, what if you gave them information. What if you took
)a budding young male wiz aside and showed him the error of his ways?
)How would that go over? Would you be sought out next time or
)avoided? Would you have to be careful not to bruise his ego?
)More careful than if the sexes were reversed?
)Would he be more comfortable getting advice about his bug from a
)man? Would YOU be more comfortable getting advice than giving it?
)
I always found it easier to get technical advice from women rather than men.
Women were less arrogant & had less need to show off all they knew (and hide
what they didn't know).  In addition women tended to have more 'people skills',
i.e. they didn't treat me as an AI program.  (Of course there were exceptions
to these generalizations.)  Perhaps women end up doing support rather than
developement because they are better at it.  Perhaps support is lower paying
because "women do it".
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