Yoav Nir <ynir(_at_)checkpoint(_dot_)com> wrote on 05/01/2012 02:24:57 AM:
From: Yoav Nir <ynir(_at_)checkpoint(_dot_)com>
To: Janet P Gunn/USA/CSC@CSC
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Date: 05/01/2012 02:26 AM
Subject: Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The
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On May 1, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Janet P Gunn wrote:
My own anecdotes.
Yes, it starts early.
When I was 3 I announced that I was going to be a physicist when I
grew up. WHY?
1 - a physicist has a chair that is on WHEELS, and spins ROUND and
ROUND
2 - a physicist has a blackboard with COLORED CHALK
3 (and MOST important) a physicist has a CANDY machine in the hall
outside his office.
But engineers get to drive trains. Trains > swivel chairs.
If I go back even further, when I was born my father reportedly told a
colleague "I don't care if she IS a girl. She is still going to like
trains!"
Janet