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Re: How To Recruit Women to Tech and IT Classes



Mmmm, Mme. C. had at least one child (daughter?). How about M. G. Mayer? others? -- They didn't have to do a trade. Any one done a study of this?

bc



Jim Green wrote:

As far as I know the SYS OP of this network has not refused to list
comments made by women who are members of this listserv. Why is it that
so few women post messages here? Are they afraid that they will be
ridiculed? Is there something about "the culture of physics" that
discourages women? Why don't we hear from other physics female faculty
members at your university?..... or are you the only one at the Unversity
of Swinburne??

Herb

Herb, could it be that women have better things to do than waste time here
on this list?

For example, as you suggested in a previous post, they may be dealing with
something really important -- like their children.

This thread seems to have assumed that enticing a woman to become a
physicist is a step up. That of course is nonsense. Motherhood is the
most rewarding and beneficial avenue a woman can pursue. Those that can
are truly lucky.

Let me go way out on a limb and say that I think it would be a rare woman
who would trade her children for as much as a Nobel Prize in physics. And
be pretty unfortunate to do so.

Jim Green
mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen