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From: cook@Alliant.COM (Dale C. Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Women Wizards?
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Date: 11 Jul 88 14:12:24 GMT
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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?
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