Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

[Janet P Gunn <jgunn6@xxxxxxx>]

Yoav Nir <ynir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05/01/2012
02:24:57 AM:

> From: Yoav Nir <ynir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Janet P Gunn/USA/CSC@CSC
> Cc: Mary Barnes <mary.ietf.barnes@xxxxxxxxx>,
"ietf-
> bounces@xxxxxxxx" <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx>, IETF discussion
list 
> <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: 05/01/2012 02:26 AM
> Subject: Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from
tech industry ? The Register
> 
> 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