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From: sethg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination at MIT
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Date: 28 Sep 88 01:13:54 GMT
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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.

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: Seth Gordon / MIT Brnch., PO Box 53, Cambridge, MA 02139
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