Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

>  >         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.
>
> Mark, I don't see the point.   Look in any college catalogue:  There are
> hundreds of majors that most HS students are not aware of.  Further, a
> prime point of college general ed requirements is to encourage students to
> think about what field they might be interested in.
>
> Do you propose that it is society's responsibility to promote actively all
> of the many possible majors -- just to be sure that they all get their fair
> share. Or are you saying that it is in the self interest of physics
> instructors to promote a physics major so that faculty jobs are protected.
>
> Somebody please help me understand all this.
>
> Jim Green

It's hardly the responsibility of "society" but it seems to me to be
the responsibility of "physics" if we who are physicists want to see
to it that those women who might be drawn to that life have the
opportunity to find out about it.

Hugh
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Hugh Haskell
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