Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!agate!eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: women at the technical core Message-ID: <11231@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 21 Jun 88 19:02:05 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 18 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu 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 ,.