Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!agate!eos!eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov From: eos!eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: women at the technical core Message-ID: <11343@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 24 Jun 88 18:26:04 GMT References: <11231@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11306@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 23 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu In article <11306@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> celerity!ps@ucsd.edu writes: >I disagree strongly with this concept. Women are as varied in their >aptitudes, likes and dislikes, as men. Encouraging young women to choose a >particular career path, I think I should clarify. The encouragement is to get more female technical people. Secondarily, they should be encouraged at least as much as men. Likes and dislikes are assumed generally the same. There are some feminists who believe that some women should be promoted on the basis of gender. This maybe okay for insurance companies, but in the age of technological competitiveness, this can be a mistake. Non-technical managers over technical people is my big worry. This is why I would encourage young women early. >Should I abandon a type of work I enjoy and can do well >in order to become a manager just because I am a woman? I'm not encouraging YOU to go into management. I'm climbing down the management ladder myself. --eugene