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Subject: Re: women in engineering and science
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Date: 15 Mar 89 19:21:03 GMT
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> How many succesful women software engineers, mathematicians,
> and so on were encouraged as children by their *fathers* in
> maths and sciences?  It seems like a lot.  I know my father,
> although a literary type, expressed a lot of admiration when
> I could do any math or physics, and that encouraged me.  
> Chantal Eide

I was definitely encouraged by my father, just because he
was so enthusiastic about math.  Admiration isn't the right
word, although I know that my doing well in school was very
important to him.  It's just that he was so into math that
he took it for granted that I would be good too, and he
took it for granted that I would like math too, because it
is such neat stuff.

My mother was important too.  She too considers schooling
very important -- she's a teacher, in fact.  I'm sure that
she had as much of an influence as my father did, and I
just happened to go into the same field as my dad rather
than my mom.

-- 
Sue Price