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From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen)
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Subject: Re: fears revealed *here*!
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Date: 16 Aug 89 06:51:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: wside@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca's message of 15 Aug 89 17:57:40 GMT

In article <24E85995.19827@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> wside@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (dawn whiteside) writes:

   Young intelligent women are just about everywhere, but they're not always
   easy to pick out from the crowd. Some places with a higher proportion of
   YIW tend to be trade shows, conferences, Mensa meetings, universities and
   work. Each of these has its own unique disadvantages, though, so beware.

Disadvantages...?  University:  the YIW are often Quite Young, and
Maybe Immature Relatively Speaking (compared to us matooah gwads).
Mensa:  hmmm, could they be...snotty?  Work:  there's a zillion guys
after them, all semi-intelligent (the guys, that is-- though this is
not to say the girls, uh, women, aren't, at *least* so).  Trade shows:
too short duration to really meet?  What disadvantages did *YOU* have
in mind?

   [ engineering and computer fields predominantly male ]

   Oddly enough, my experience ``out in the industry'' doesn't indicate this.
   While there may be a small percentage of females in the eng/comp areas of
   some companies, there are several companies where women make up more than
   a third of the technical staff. And these women are competent, too.

   (You want names? BNR, IBM, Dofasco, ...)

Gads!  There's hope in them thar hills!

   --
   Dawn Whiteside
   living proof that young, intelligent, _attached_ women are out there ...

Kim Nguyen, living (?) proof that Y, I, unattached guys are (sniff)
still around (sigh)...

--
Kim Nguyen 					kim@watsup.waterloo.edu
Systems Design Engineering  --  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada