Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes

["Shapiro, Mark" <mshapiro@EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU>]

Jim,

        The answer to that one ought to be obvious.  So that they become
aware of the discipline and what it has to offer.  Not everyone grows up
hearing about physics at his or her mother's knee.

        I happened to have an uncle who was a physicist who got me
interested in the subject.  Otherwise I'd probably be making shoes like the
rest of my family did.

Mark
http://www.IrascibleProfessor.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Green [mailto:JMGreen@SISNA.COM]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:37 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes


>         Certainly not... but we have not done a very good job attracting
> women to the profession in the past, which suggests that we need to
> reevaluate what we have been doing that may have discouraged women from
> considering physics as a career.

Which brings us back to my original question.  Why would anyone want to
promote physics or any other curriculum for any particular segment of
society?


Jim Green
mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen