Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!sethg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU From: sethg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Discrimination at MIT Message-ID: <5446@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 28 Sep 88 01:13:54 GMT Sender: skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu Lines: 25 Approved: skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu A couple days ago, I posted a message about one woman's story of discrimination at MIT, which included the lines: `Incoming women at MIT, she says, are told *explicitly* what majors Women `Should Not Take. A couple people asked *who* told her this, and the answer probably bears posting: male students (the women, she said, didn't say much of anything on this subject), male faculty (not very many female professors), and her male freshman advisor. Some time during her freshman year, when the workload was really wretched, the advisor suggested that maybe she didn't want to go into CS, since after all, she was behind in her classes. Of course, at that time of the year, *all* the freshmen were behind in their classes, but the male CS-aspirants didn't receive that kind of lecture... OK, enough posting other people's stories. There must be MIT students, faculty, and alumnae on the net who can speak for themselves on this subject. -- * L'shana tovah... forgive me my net.sins : Seth Gordon / MIT Brnch., PO Box 53, Cambridge, MA 02139 : bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!sethg / standard disclaimer