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- From: burt@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Burt Voorhees)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Bozos Synonymous
- Message-ID: <burt.722373001@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 19:10:01 GMT
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- >In article <burt.722061313@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- >burt@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Burt Voorhees) writes:
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- >>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
-
- Mainly on mathematicins I've known.
- Admittedly a subjective perception,
- but from what I've seen many
- mathematicians "talk the talk"
- but don't "walk the walk."
- So one hears comments about things
- like the kinds of mathematics that
- women can do (mainly computation,
- sorting and arranging, nor _real_
- macho stuff)
-
- I don't want to do any disservice
- though to the mathematicians who
- really are non-sexist, which is
- probably a majority. But there are
- the statistics about the numbers of
- tenured faculty at major universities
- (I think it's something like 5 out of
- 400 but don't have the data at hand.)
- which were reported in several articles
- in Science over the past year.
-
- burt voorhees
-