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Subject:Re: gender, sex & Andreas Ramos From:"Linda H. Schoenhoff" <lhs -at- UNIFY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 13 Apr 1994 16:42:32 PDT
Andreas Ramos writes (in part)...
>By adopting the techie position, which seems to exclude women, in that
>women don't read computer magazines, and I'd venture to say, don't read
>manuals either...
That's because we have that intuitive thing going for us, you know?
We girls just put our hands on the keyboard and wait for
information to magically flow through our fingertips. Since
it's intuitive, it's kinda hard to explain.
Really, I found the study summarized in Andreas' original post
more than a little scary. It sounds as though girls will
be taught to regard the computer as nothing more than an
upgraded typewriter
