In article <9210291623.AA15217 at jkdec.ROCKEFELLER.EDU> kominos at JKDEC.ROCKEFELLER.EDU (Dorothea Kominos) writes:
>> Are there any women out there in industrial
>positions? What is it like? Do they have problems with male collegues?
>>I often felt that there are a number
>of tasks within the laboratory that are more "subservient" and I got stuck
>with. It was always the case when I was a grad student that the
>transparencies would run out right before I gave group meeting. Once I
>asked a very liberal-minded male post-doc in the lab why he never went to
>the stockroom to pick them up. He couldn't be bothered to learn how.
>He also always happened to use the last one in the box.
Well, I work in engineering, not bio, but I see the same types of things...
when we have a cake to celebrate someone's birthday, somehow a woman
engineer, manager, or secretary ends up cutting the cake...and when things
need to be cleaned up, it's usually the women who do it...there's a group
of women at work who meet every once in a while to discuss the finer points
of being female in a high-tech company. We were talking about this just
a few weeks ago. Yes, there are problems in engr...I would assume it
isn't too much different in other scientific/technical fields.
Teri Tracey "When people are free to do as they like, they
San Diego, CA generally imitate each other."
teri at sdd.hp.com
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