Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes

[Warren Hein <whein@AAPT.ORG>]

You don't have to say it in words to send the same message.  I think the
books by Tobias and Seymour based on their research are clear on that issue.


> > > Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM> 08/24 3:45 PM >>>
>
> I think you've got it backwards. It's not promoting *for* any given
> segment of society, it's stopping the practice of "anti-promoting"
> physics for certain segments of society.

"Anti-promoting"???  I don't see any physics instructor standing in front
of her/his class and saying "Folks, physics is a lousy field to be
majoring
in, try the law, or maybe engineering"   Of course if a male instructor
said something like "Ladies, physics is a male field; stay away, he would
be fired and maybe sued.  If a female instructor said this, that would be
ok, but I can't see a female physicist saying this to female students.  I
don't know what would happen if a chemistry instructor said the likes of
this. <g>

What "anti-promoting"?



Jim Green
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