Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax!emory!vicki@gatech.edu From: emory!vicki@gatech.edu (Vicki Powers) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Countering discrimination your children will face Message-ID: <5426@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 26 Sep 88 14:53:55 GMT References: <5396@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Sender: skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu Organization: Emory U. Math/CS Dept. 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 The next time someone says "Math was always my worst subject in school", look them straight in the eye and say, "Oh well, I can't read." I hear "Math was always my worst subject" and "You must be really smart" all the time, but so do most of the male mathematicians I know so it doesn't seem to be a gender thing. A not-so-related story (from Lois Gould's book "Not Responsible for Personal Articles") : Gould was watching TV with her two sons when President Nixon was being interviewed. A little girl said that she wanted to be Pres. when she grew up and Nixon responded by saying "But you're too pretty to be Pres., when you grow up you should get married and have kids". The response from the sons : "Boy is that wierd", "Yeah, Nixon is married and has kids!" -- Vicki Powers | vicki@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED Emory University | {sun!sunatl,gatech}!emory!vicki UUCP Dept of Math and CS | vicki@emory NON-DOMAIN BITNET Atlanta, GA 30322 |