Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes

[Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>]

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.


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