Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

Nice to hear from you again, Margaret.

As far as I know the SYS OP of this network has not refused to list
comments made by women who are members of this listserv.  Why is it that
so few women post messages here?   Are they afraid that they will be
ridiculed?  Is there something about "the culture of physics" that
discourages women? Why don't we hear from other physics female faculty
members at your university?..... or are you the only one at the Unversity
of Swinburne??

Herb

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:15:19 +0000 Margaret Mazzolini
<mmazzolini@SWIN.EDU.AU> writes:
> I don't want to buy into this one - if you want my views, they appear
> to pretty well match the postings by Hugh and Dewey, or read my
> letter in The Physics Teacher (not sure if it's out yet).
>
> I do have to comment, though, that I have just received today's
> phys-l digest containing 20 postings debating the need to attract
> women into tech areas & specifically physics, and whether the
> prevailing culture in physics discourages women participants, and
> all
> the postings were by men!  That has to rate as one of life's
> surreal experiences.
>
> Unless you think that phys-l serves no useful purpose in the physics
> community, then the fact that you have almost no women posting ever
> -
> and certainly I'm the only one I've seen so far who is silly enough
> to stick my head up out of the trench on this thread - has to say
> something about the culture of physics?
>
> Back into the trench,
> Cheers
> Margaret
>
>
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