Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!miller@mcs.nlm.nih.gov From: miller@mcs.nlm.nih.gov (Nancy Miller) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Women Wizards Message-ID: <12108@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 13 Jul 88 17:47:52 GMT References: <11732@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 35 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu G>Article 107 of comp.society.women: G>From: @hamlet.bitnet:tan@devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Greer H. Tan) G>Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. G> G>pretty good expert in UNIX, and I always wondered why I couldn't derive G>as much pleasure in finding out the little intricacies of the system like G>some of my male counterparts ... I really thought it was just me. I mean, G> G>boyfriend on the other hand would have loved to do nothing more ... My sister G>describes herself as virtual memory. She doesn't actually know everything, G>but she knows how to get to it ... where as most men *are* disc memory ... G>they actually *know* the stuff off the top of their heads! G> G>to every generalization ... but, for the most part women tend to notice G>details and think about the finer points of life and men tend to see the G>bigger picture in a much more less complicated sort of way. G> G>Greer You start out by saying that men sweat the details and women don't, at least not when it comes to computers. Then you end by saying that women sweat the details, but men don't, in any area. A blatant contradiction. Doing some sort of study to compare men's vs. women's styles of cognition does sound interesting, the best explanatiion for the differences in the way we perform in different areas that I have seen is still the socialization process wherein males are expected to be more involved in certain areas and women are expected to be more involved in others. By the way, I managed to convince my parents to get me an erector set, also (as someone else posted). I liked that bettter than playing with dolls. I never got the "robot" toy I wanted, though, because my Aunt thought that, of course :-( , my brother was the one who wanted it. Nancy Miller miller@mcs.nlm.nih.gov