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From: Nicoya Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 8:25 AM
Subject: RE: [issues] YAFGA (Yet Another Female Geeks Article)
> There was one passage in this article that really resonated with my
personal
> experience:
>
> So
Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jenn V. wrote:
> >One is a hacker - she does it because she loves it. She isn't paid a hell
> >of a lot, but that's because she owns a startup company. She's happy, if
> >overworked.
>
> Gee, that sounds somehow familiar :)
(lau
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
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> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:12:24 -0500 (EST), srl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >Well, it might; in a society where money is power, if you promote
> >computers as the way to get money, and girls learn to work with
> >technology, then those females will advance in socia
Snarfblat wrote:
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> I have a question, which I wonder about, but have no insight into due to
> my
> luck growing up in an excellent environment for fostering geekiness ;)
>
> Have any of you ever felt excluded or neglected in tech classes because
> of your
> gender?
Yes. Yes! YES! *YES*! _*YE
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:12:24 -0500 (EST), srl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Well, it might; in a society where money is power, if you promote
>computers as the way to get money, and girls learn to work with
>technology, then those females will advance in social status.
But girls aren't socialized
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jenn V. wrote:
>One is a hacker - she does it because she loves it. She isn't paid a hell
>of a lot, but that's because she owns a startup company. She's happy, if
>overworked.
Gee, that sounds somehow familiar :)
>> On a completely different subject, what is a
Snarblat wrote:
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|Have any of you ever felt excluded or neglected in tech classes because
|of your
|gender?
Yes - my intelligence or technical skills have both been openly questioned
at times in male-dominated environments. It's _always_ been in situations
where the men didn't know me - like in
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Snarfblat wrote:
> Have any of you ever felt excluded or neglected in tech classes because
> of your gender?
No, but I did have a teacher who strongly discouraged me from taking
honors pre-calculus (who was female). I can't help but wonder if she did
so because I was female.
Nicoya Helm wrote:
>
> I did get a lot of wonderful exposure at school, but thinking that
> I would never get to take what I was learning and apply it outside of school
> lead to a certain amount of apathy on my part - like "oh, well, I'll never
> get my own computer, why bother learning this stu
There was one passage in this article that really resonated with my personal
experience:
So by the time you get to high school, you've gone
through the last 10 years not getting as much exposure
as boys. Even if you haven't lost in
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