Subject: Re: Women, technology, on-line news (was: gender on-line) From: jvncnet!oise.on.ca!USERMCQUEEN Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 07:50:02 -0500 (EST)

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I honestly wish I had the time to respond to the extensive remarks of
Colin Dunn, but I will only make a couple of observations:

1. Marginalization of women away from the sciences, math and technology.
Streaming of women into "women's" subject has been studied extensively. My
professor of statistics, M. Dormer Ellis, and who has just retired, did a
major study of the streaming of girls in the Canadian context in the 1950s.
My comment in this regard is that society is held back when women are not
included, and as girls, held back or diverted from mathematics or the
sciences.

2. I like the idea of not labelling content, but the development and
creation of interest groups, likecurrently exists on the internet.

Regards,

Bill McQueen in Toronto

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