Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!tron@tc.fluke.com From: tron@tc.fluke.com (Peter Barbee) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Women Wizards? Message-ID: <11955@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 11 Jul 88 20:58:22 GMT References: <11734@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11795@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 21 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu This is slightly off the track - but only slightly. Some have said there are few wizards because, in part, wizards are basically anti-social beings who, in fact, emulate the default western male stereotype. In another current discussion someone mentioned that at least some times men make more money and are advanced faster than women because some men (and I think the men who advance fastest and make most) are much more single- minded in their pursuit of career. So here we have two points which indicate the desirability of workers who will be very singleminded, anti-social, career beings. Is this in fact desirable? Will companies continue to promote people who ignore the rest of their lives instead of individuals who have a balanced life? Is the goal (profit for the company) best served by people who think of nothing else? Is that goal actually worthwhile, even for the company? Peter B