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From: iuvax!io.att.com!bc@purdue.edu (w.j.cambre)
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Subject: Re: Women on the Net
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Date: 15 Feb 89 21:52:43 GMT
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In article <6394@ecsvax.UUCP>, ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
> 
> 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
> computer industry.  It about boils down to the thesis that men get
> a big jump on woman because they were computer nerds in high school
> and college . . .
> -Ron

Wait a minute.  I am 29 years old and there were NO computers in
my high school back in the mid 70's.  Most of the high schools in the area
(Daytona Beach, FL) had no computers what-so-ever.  I got into
computers in college, when I just decided to try a computer course.
90% of the people in all the computer courses were men, but it wasn't
because of previous experience in High School.

 - Bill Cambre