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From: phys-l@lists.nau.edu: Forum for Physics Educators
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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:54 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes
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 traditionallyunderrepresented groups
in high tech and science related fields, we depriveourselves of their
skills
in what is already an extremely tight labour market for suchpeople. We
also lose their very different insights and contributions toour fields,
which will be poorer without them. Very soon the majorityof Americans
will
be ethnically different from the majority of physicsfaculty, which will
not
help our somewhat estranged present status at all.
Jim Green
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