[422] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
women@tech issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yvonne@MIT.EDU)
Tue May 1 11:10:50 2001
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To: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: yvonne@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: yvonne@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 11:10:37 -0400
You know, even since that women@tech issue came up, I've
been asked by random friends, usually facetiously but sometimes not,
"So do *you* feel you've been treated differently
at MIT because you're a woman?"
The first time this happened, I hadn't heard about
the tech issue, so I just gave my questioner a weird look.
No, and where the hell did that question come from?!
I get the impression I'm not alone with that response.
Someone made the comment to me that during undergrad years,
things for women are fine. It's the grad school years that
might be a potential problem: how does one balance tenure, research,
and having children? This goes for both females and males.
-Yvonne.
