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From: wor-mein!pete@uunet.UU.NET (Pete Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination in the computer industry
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Date: 25 Jul 88 16:13:56 GMT
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In article <12503@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> fester@math.berkeley.edu writes:
>And I have some advice I'd like to pass on to whatever women are 
>reading this (it might be good for men too, actually) : think VERY
>hard about relocating for a job.  In particular, don't move out to
>an area where the company you are working for is the only computer
>company in the area... So preferably, if you take a 
>job, have it be someplace like Silicon Valley or Rte. 128 or some
>huge technology cluster so that you have the option to leave should
>it prove neccessary.
>It's a drag to have to think defensively all the time, but its worth
>the grief it saves you.


Based on my observations of the work experiences of women co-workers
over the last few years at a couple of different jobs, I would have to
agree.  I have seen first hand how very competent software engineers,
who happen to be female, are frequently stuck with completely inappropraite
work (which happens to look a lot like secretarial work).


Pete