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From: paw3c@galen.acc.virginia.edu (Pat Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Technical Core, Take Two
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Date: 31 Jul 88 14:12:27 GMT
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>             It has been suggested that women don't like to be in the
> technical core, because women like to mediate and women like to have
> more contact with the general public than being in the technical
> core allows.

I have trouble with this, because, in _my_ case, at least, it's
just not true.  I would _dearly_ love to be in a "technical core"
where I could just work on something, rather than having to deal
with other people (I'm a system administrator, and so am
responsible to about 300 users).  I think that IF there's a
reason women _don't_ like to be in the technical core, it might
be because those who are _already_ there (kind of by default,
men, right?) don't _want_ women there, and make them feel
unwanted in subtle ways.


Pat Wilson
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