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From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: women at the technical core
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Date: 21 Jun 88 19:02:05 GMT
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Marla Parker makes some good points about women and the technical core.

I believe we have a responsibility to encourage young women to
seek technical career paths, then go into management.  There is
a current movement afoot to accelerate their placement into management
positions.  Unfortunately, the current flood of MBAs (and Lawyers
to a lesser extent) who understand nothing about the products, sevices,
and research their firms do is appalling (this is gender independent).

Women must overcome the stigma of "math anxiety," stereotypes of
science and technology, parents must encourage their daughters
to get into these fields.  This need goes beyond men and women
to our nation's competitiveness and ways of life [did I just hear a fife?].
We need inventors, scientists, developers, engineers (none of these
exclusive of the other).

--eugene miya
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