Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes

[Joel Rauber <Joel_Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>]

I'd be a little bit curious to find out exactly would be a female/feminine
view point ons e.g. supersymmetry in String theory?  Or for that matter,
what would be a male/masculine viewpoint on the same issue?

Joel Rauber
Joel_Rauber@sdstate.edu


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>
> Dan MacIsaac says some thoughtful things here.   He seems to
> say that the
> physics community would benefit from a female/feminine
> viewpoint on various
> scientific topics.  I think that this may be valid.  On the
> other hand I
> don't see much value in inviting historians or sociologists
> to a physics
> conference just to get a wider viewpoint,
>
> Jim Green
>
> At 14:49 23 08 2000 , you wrote:
> > If we don't make attempts to include traditionally
> underrepresented groups
> > in high tech and science related fields, we deprive
> ourselves of their
> skills
> > in what is already an extremely tight labour market for such
> people.  We
> > also lose their very different insights and contributions to
> our fields,
> > which will be poorer without them.  Very soon the majority
> of Americans
> will
> > be ethnically different from the majority of physics
> faculty, which will
> not
> > help our somewhat estranged present status at all.
>
>
> Jim Green
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