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- From: ramsay@math.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Bozos Synonymous
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 01:47:57 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <Bxo8Gz.9xv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov6.194922.15@pro-palmtree.soc <burt.722061313@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
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- In article <burt.722061313@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- burt@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Burt Voorhees) writes:
-
- >Mathematicians tend to be rather sexist.
-
- My experience has not suggested this. I hear scarcely any sexist
- comments from fellow mathematicians. I haven't witnessed any
- discriminatory action lately either. If anything, it seems as though
- academics in general, and academic mathematicians included, are
- typically less sexist than the non-academics I've encountered, and are
- interested in women participating in mathematics as equals. I'd *like*
- to think this is true. Of course, this is only loose anecdotal
- evidence, so I could be wrong. On what is your opinion based?
-
- Keith Ramsay
- ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca
-