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An interesting statistic that I picked up at the meeting in Guelph:
About 90% (give or take, I don't remember the exact numbers) of women
physicists are married to other physicists.
In fact, for those women who are
married to physicists, the obvious solution to the latch-key problem
is the so-called "two-body problem." That is, the couple sharing
joint half-time appointments. It isn't common yet, but it is becoming
moreso as physics departments who are interested in becoming more
female-friendly realize that this is a good way to do it. The rules
governing such arrangements vary from school to school, but more and
more schools are realizing that they get a good bargain because for
slightly more than one salary (benefits often can't be split) they
often get considerably more than one person's work.
there is certainly more than one way to skin this cat.
Hugh
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Hugh Haskell
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Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to, Windows because they
have to..
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