Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!agate!fortin%zap.UUCP@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU From: fortin%zap.UUCP@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Denis Fortin) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Women Wizards? Message-ID: <12111@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 14 Jul 88 11:42:51 GMT References: <11734@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: (none), Montreal QC, Canada Lines: 20 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 <11734@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> marcia%hpindl8@hplabs.HP.COM (Marcia Bednarcyk) writes: > > After reading the discussion on the technical core, a question came to mind: > why are there no women computer wizards, and what is preventing them (if > anything)? Hmmm. I have missed the main discussion, but upon reflecting on this paragraph for a little while, I realized that I do know a woman whom I would consider a VMS wizard. I guess the idea that there are no women wizards might come from the fact that women are still far from representing 50% of the workforce in the computing field, and since wizards reprensent a very small percentage of that workforce also, there must be even fewer women wizards! How many people out there DO know women wizards? -- Denis Fortin, fortin@zap.uucp fortin%zap.uucp@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu | CAE Electronics Ltd uunet!utai!mcgill-vision!zap!fortin | The opinions expressed above are mine