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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Gostin)
Sat May 28 20:48:28 1994
From: Jeff Gostin <jgostin@eternal.pha.pa.us>
Reply-To: jgostin@eternal.pha.pa.us
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 19:27:34 EST
X-Original-Article-From: sidney@apple.com (Sidney Markowitz)
sidney@apple.com (Sidney Markowitz) writes:
> pink computers. People on the mailing list are upset over the underlying
> message of the article that the net is technological and male and no place
> for a poor helpless unscientific woman.
For almost two years, I was a Tech Support Rep (ooooooo! Evil
Incarnate!) for a software company. It was my experience that, of all the
customers I dealt with, women tended to be less "clued in" about
computers. However, I also found that they were easier to work with, and
didn't require as much "diplomacy" as the male customers I dealt with.
Mind you, this is my experience -- your mileage may vary.
The whole point here is that, as a whole, women do tend to be less
informed about technology (or at least computers.). Technology is
generally seen, by society, as a "male thing". This trend is changing, but
it is still in force.
--Jeff
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