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From: geac!daveb@uunet.UU.NET (David Collier-Brown)
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Subject: Re: Women Wizards?
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Date: 20 Jul 88 17:49:26 GMT
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In article <12003@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ix665%sdcc6@ucsd.edu (Sue Raul) writes:
|It seems that the real point isn't whether it's dolls vs erector sets
|and computers, because there are so many other ways a child's "universe"
|can be biased.

  And some of the ways one avoids biasing the child's universe may
be seen as themselves biased...

  A close friend and serious techie (in biology) carefully placed
her teen-aged daughter in a religious private school.  She did so to
prevent the stereotypical behavior of her teen-aged peers from
turning the daughter away from getting a good grounding in math and
the sciences.
  When I have mentioned this as a positive measure, various people
have commented on how "sexist and narrow-minded it is to send a
girl to a girls' school".

  As it happens, the choice was based on real, factual evidence of
university registration and marks in the sciences of students from
that class of school being better than those of the non-segregated
schools in the area.

--dave (out, out demn'd stereotypes!) c-b
-- 
 David Collier-Brown.  {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb
 Geac Computers Ltd.,  |  Computer science loses its
 350 Steelcase Road,   |  memory, if not its mind,
 Markham, Ontario.     |  every six months.