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- From: Bob Prior - MIT Press <PRIOR%MITVMA.BITNET@uwavm.u.washington.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: PUBS: Virtual Sexism, Pimentel and Texteira??
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 11:33:25 EST
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- Denise,
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- As a publisher, I see the continued use of sexist (or, male-centric)
- language as yet another artifact of the male-in-the-workplace-and-
- female-at-home world that must be changed if women are to find equal
- job opportunities and equal pay. Perpetuating one myth, even a
- relatively minor one as the use of he exclusively in scientific
- literature, allows for other more important myths to also continue.
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- The issue may not be important to you (perhaps because, as a woman,
- you are used to adjusting the language to include yourself) but it is
- important for men to intentionally include women in their view of the
- scientific or employment world until such inclusion becomes automatic.
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- --Bob
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- Bob Prior, Editor
- The MIT Press
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