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From: marla@Sun.COM (Marla Parker)
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Subject: responses to career days etc.
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Date: 7 Jul 88 17:58:23 GMT
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Thanks for the many excellent responses to my inquiry about participating
in high school career days in order to encourage young women to consider
technical fields.

By far the most common suggestion was to check with the local chapter
of the Society of Women Engineers.  (Now why didn't I think of that?)
I called the local president and she took my name to give to the woman
who is in charge of organizing the visits to students.  Right now she
said they only have an informal program, i.e. when schools call them,
they provide speakers.  However, she said they would like to have a
more active outreach program, and when she asked if I'd be willing to
help organize it, I of course said yes.

Here is a summary of the other interesting responses I got: 

|From: ucbvax!ames!pacbell!att!whutt!6243mmd (Madeline Dwyer) 
|There is quite an active program for just that in our local YWCA,
|called Career Options Unlimited.  It's a long story concerning how
|it's run, but it's in conjunction with their TWIN (Tribute to Women
|and INdustry) program.  The TWIN program is in several YWCAs across
|the country, so the high school program may be in progress in those
|same areas.  This program covers all professional fields so includes
|non-technical fields also.

I called the YWCA and left my name.  Their career program is more or
less defunct at the moment, though they'd like to ... She mentioned
that the Berkeley branch has an outstanding program.

|From: eliz@cs.rochester.edu
|In my area the closest thing to a Group would be the Rochester 
|Women's Business Network & they are not particularly oriented
|toward the technical. 
|
|It just occurred to me that infiltrating secretarial classes 
|would be a great strategy, typing being a prereq for computers
|after all (-:

|From: Laura D. Bagnall