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From: shore@ncifcrf.gov (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Girls' schools (was Re: Women Wizards?)
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Date: 27 Jul 88 14:10:31 GMT
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In article <12620@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> you write:
>[But how good are the science programs at single sex schools?  At
>the University I'll be teaching at next year, (it was the women's
>campus of the University of North Carolina system till the mid-sixties)
>there isn't even a computer science major.  TR]

It probably varies as widely as the quality of the science programs at
coeducational schools.  My sister went to an exclusive girls' school
here in Virginia which has its own science building and individualized
instruction.  She was able to take several years of advanced math,
something she would not have been able to do in the public schools.
She had had social problems when she was younger, and the school helped
build her self-confidence and made her much more comfortable with
herself.  She went on to get a Ph.D. in physics.  I doubt she'd be
doing as well as she is if she hadn't gone to Madeira.

Melinda
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Melinda Shore                                    shore@ncifcrf.gov
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