On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:10:40PM -0500, Terri Oda wrote:
> 
> The males who visited the booth gravitated to the person who was free or
> talking about something that interested them, regardless of gender.  There
> were, I think, 5 of us for much of the day, so I talked with around 1/5 of
> the guys who stopped at our booth.  However, I talked with probably 80-90%
> of the women.  

Interesting!

> Now why is that?  Theories?

My guess: fear of being talked down to, or just a desire to have a technical
conversation with another woman. I think that put in that situation, I would
gravitate toward the woman, as well. Now, whether that's the right thing to
do, I don't know. :)


--Molly


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