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From: welty@algol.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: programming in Japan
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Date: 9 May 89 18:34:25 GMT
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The New York Times article on women and computing made one passing
remark about the number of women programmers in Japan, and gave
the impression that women had better opportunities in computing
there.  I suspect that the author of the article misunderstood
Japanese society.

You see, i've heard tell of an incident where the japanese
executive in charge of a US/Japan joint effort in robotic
control publicly and comtemptuously dismissed programming
as `women's work', suggesting that programming as a profession
is held in fairly low esteem in Japan.

just a little food for thought,
   richard
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