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Re: Where Have All the Boys Gone?



Hi, Folks:

By chance, a related article appeared on the AP newswires today and
appeared
in our local paper. Dateline: Chicago

The headline is: Girls Rejecting Tech Jobs

and the subtitle is: Disinterest in 'geeky' aspects limits pool of
qualified workers.



The article quotes a report by the AAUW. Some snippets:

It [the report] concluded that girls have the ability to
learn and use
computers, but they are turned off by technical careers
that they
view as full of geeky guys in windowless offices who
toil at key-
boards for hours.

A sample of the girls' comments:

"Girls have other priorities"

"I just don't want to take computer science...Just
looking at it,
all the programming and these funny-looking things on
the paper.
It takes so much stuff to do one thing on the computer."

"The reason why you see more men doing computer
stuff than
girls is that girls are more ambitious than that. ...
a lot of people
don't want to be at a desk from 9 to 5."

The comments above came from the AAUW report.

From a related article that accompanied the above comes the following
datum:
"[Average] salary for female physicists is $65, 208, about $400
MORE than their
male counterparts."


Wes Davis