At 09:47 PM 1/8/00 , Jenn V. wrote:
>Cat wrote:
> > To me, that experience was exactly the sort of thing that women are
> > talking about when they talk about the fact that even though
> > certain opportunities seem to exist, in a significant way they don't.
> > Wow, I really *am* riled about this
Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Cat wrote:
>
> > > for coke and pizza. I thought the math and science teachers were
> > > jerks, took as much English and art shop classes as I could (we got to
> > > make things), skipped phy ed as often as possible, (oh, yes, and
> > > lea
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
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>I haven't had time to read all those articles yet, but they looked
>good. The name of the submitter caught my eye: Ellen Spertus has a
>mass of stuff online about this topic, and it makes for interesting
>reading.
Ellen's great. But whateve
Cat wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jenn V. wrote:
> Wow -- so there has been progress! ;-)
>
> To me, that experience was exactly the sort of thing that women are
> talking about when they talk about the fact that even though
> certain opportunities seem to exist, in a significant way they don't.
Cat wrote:
>The teacher (male) said, "Well, good morning and welcome gentlemen -- oh,
>and ladies?"
Extremely common, everywhere from schools to open source conferences. I
just so love being an afterthought, don't you?
K.
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jenn V. wrote:
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>
> Cat wrote:
> >
> > Ah, but I (as a 23-year-old who was in eighth grade in the late 80's)
> > remember very well a choice between taking shop or taking home ec.
>
> You had a choice? Wow. We didn't. Home ec it was, if you had
> inward-pointing genitali
Cat wrote:
>
> Ah, but I (as a 23-year-old who was in eighth grade in the late 80's)
> remember very well a choice between taking shop or taking home ec.
You had a choice? Wow. We didn't. Home ec it was, if you had
inward-pointing genitalia. Shop if it pointed out.
Jenn V.
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Cat wrote:
> > for coke and pizza. I thought the math and science teachers were
> > jerks, took as much English and art shop classes as I could (we got to
> > make things), skipped phy ed as often as possible, (oh, yes, and
> > learned German), and stayed home and read. Very
> for coke and pizza. I thought the math and science teachers were
> jerks, took as much English and art shop classes as I could (we got to
> make things), skipped phy ed as often as possible, (oh, yes, and
> learned German), and stayed home and read. Very un-masculine, for the
Ah, but I (as a
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:52:03PM +1100 or thereabouts, Claudine Chionh wrote:
> Current Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility newsletter
> (http://www.cpsr.org/) focuses on gender issues in computing -- I
> found this link from Slashdot, which is a nice change from their usual
> ta
Emily Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Imagine yourself as a shy and easily startled and scared kid of 13 or 14.
> The easy and not very scary path involves taking lots of English and
> History classes throughout high school, and if you only take 2 years of
> science and 3 of math, it leaves
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:11:36 -0500
Caitlyn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> J B wrote:
>
> > Currently, if a woman wants to be in any field, and is of the proper
> > mindset, there is nothing that will keep her out...not sexism,
>
> Really You mean if a guy is sexist, doesn't take women
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