Yoav Nir <[email protected]> wrote on 05/01/2012 02:24:57 AM: > From: Yoav Nir <[email protected]> > To: Janet P Gunn/USA/CSC@CSC > Cc: Mary Barnes <[email protected]>, "ietf- > [email protected]" <[email protected]>, IETF discussion list > <[email protected]> > Date: 05/01/2012 02:26 AM > Subject: Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register > > On May 1, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Janet P Gunn wrote: > > My own anecdotes. > > Yes, it starts early. > > When I was 3 I announced that I was going to be a physicist when I > grew up. WHY? > > 1 - a physicist has a chair that is on WHEELS, and spins ROUND and ROUND > 2 - a physicist has a blackboard with COLORED CHALK > 3 (and MOST important) a physicist has a CANDY machine in the hall > outside his office. > > But engineers get to drive trains. Trains > swivel chairs.
If I go back even further, when I was born my father reportedly told a colleague "I don't care if she IS a girl. She is still going to like trains!" Janet
