Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: segregating male and female Message-ID: <778@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 19:12:21 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.778 Posted: Sat Jan 5 19:12:21 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jan-85 07:08:58 EST References: <241@mss.UUCP> <439@gitpyr.UUCP> <3918@ucbvax.ARPA> <445@gitpyr.UUCP> <617@utcsrgv.UUCP> <114@topaz.ARPA> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.college:625 net.cse:308 ["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 ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel