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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: segregating male and female
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["The Marines are looking for a few good men.  But so are the women."]

> Come on now.  As far as I have seen so far, the women in most CSE classes
> that I have either taught or given have been more enthusiastic then the men.
> There is a large problem (that I used to run into in math classes) that the
> teachers will ignore the women, giving more of their attention to the men,
> and thus finally discouraging the women.

Another observation: women students have asked me to assign them to all-
woman programming teams - to forestall "enthusiasms" of the wrong sort.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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