Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!cook@Alliant.COM From: cook@Alliant.COM (Dale C. Cook) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Women Wizards? Message-ID: <12107@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 11 Jul 88 14:12:24 GMT References: <11787@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA Lines: 19 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 <11787@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Q2816@pucc.princeton.edu (Roger L. Lustig (CBD, Inc.)) writes: >Hm. I guess this area must be atypical then. PUCC's top systems people >are split about 50-50, men and women -- and they ARE wizards, because the >system is a very idiosyncratic, customized one. > Hmmm. I work for a small post-start-up (how's that for coining a word?) company. We absolutely don't have the luxury of hiring anyone on any other basis but performance. I'm on our key new R&D project. One of the two managers on the project is female. The key logic designer is female (and the best!) Our ADA internals person, female, is reputed to be one of, if not the, best in the country. Our Fortran person is female. And so on. I think high tech is one of the least descriminatory industries simply because it is relatively easy to measure and reward competitance. Any similar/different experience out there? -- - Dale N1US VOICE: (617) 486-1343 ARPA: cook@alliant.alliant.com SMAIL: 1 Monarch Drive UUCP: ...linus!alliant!cook Littleton, MA 01460