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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)?
>

There is at least one woman wizard known to all - Rebecca Thomas who edits
the "Wizard's Grab-bag" colum of Unix World Magazine. If she's not in fact
a wizard, then she's doing a real good job faking it (and I doubt that).

It might also interest you to know that the Senior Staff Engineer at
Tolerant Systems is a woman...  her name is Joan Arnett. She has had this
position for all of the 2 years I have been here - probably more than
that.

So they're out there - they're just still very much in the minority.