Re: [issues] Re: Mnetoring (was: conversation monopolization)

2001-03-27 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:26:43PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have about 20 technical people on the books. 4 are women. > > The writers? > Me. > Catherine. > Kate. > > > What are the odds of that being random? (yes, all three of us are female) In addition to female-socialisation bein

Re: [issues] Re: Mnetoring (was: conversation monopolization)

2001-03-27 Thread jenn
Caitlyn Martin wrote: > How many of us who are women in tech fields are looked > upon as different or weird because of who we are? Isn't something wrong with that? #include MeToo Me! Me! It definately happens, on a regular basis. Them: "So, what do you do?" Me: "I'm a computer programmer" The

RE: [issues] Re: Mnetoring (was: conversation monopolization)

2001-03-26 Thread Ms. Piglet
Let's not forget the times when the "token female" on the team doesn't have *time* to learn new tech stuff, because it's assumed that being female, part of her duties are making the coffeetyping the lettersbuying the boss's wife's birthday present. Yes, things are much better on that fron