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From: lsc@Sun.COM (Lisa S Chabot)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Women on the Net
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Date: 15 Feb 89 19:58:37 GMT
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In article <6405@ecsvax.UUCP> brs@lzfme.att.com (B.SCHWARTZ) writes:
>
>>In article <6394@ecsvax.UUCP> ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
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>>There's an article on the front page of the Times today that reports
>>the results of a study into why there is such a gender gap in the
>
>I read the article too, and most of what you say is an accurate
>representation of what is in it.
>...  It also went on to stress the importance of
>role models.  Most successful women in the computer field have
>parents, or other mentors who work in the field and
>introduced them to computing (with encouraagement) at an early
>age. 

Hrmph!  How about a local survey of successful women in this newsgroup:
Did you have mentors at an early age?  Were they your parents, or others?

Me: nope.  I created my first compiler error at the tender age of 18.
I've an uncle who works in computers, and at the time he offered that
a degree at MIT might prepare me for a nice position as a technical
secretary (yeah, well, it was the mid-70's, but still).

To think that wysiwyg editors have doomed me to a life of software 
engineering!  :-)


++lsc++

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