Hi Norman
I started with 900+ first year comp sci folks and when we finally
graduated (all 94 of us) there were 3 women
None of them are currently working in the field any more
Jeez, that doesn't make learning this stuff as a profession seem
attractive at all. :(
56% of women in their 40s who graduated from Yale 20 years ago are no
longer working at all. They are home with their children. This may
not be politically correct, but i know a LOT of women, given the
choice, will choose to stay home with their kids. Moreover, given the
choice to have a professional career part-time (school hours for
example) many would choose it. I consider myself very fortunate to be
able to work school hours. Freelance journalism is very flexible that
way. There are very few professional jobs that work like that.
Frankly, having worked 60 hour weeks, there wasn't enough left of me
to be a parent. The day my daughter said to me "when are you coming
home to be my mommy again?" I knew the answer had to be, "soon."
Someone has to take care of the kids. It's rotten, unfair and
inefficient that women have to give up their careers to do it. But
given that as the only choice, that's what they do.
dej, who probably should have left these worms in the can...
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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always stop when
there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let
it refill at night from the springs that fed it.--Ernest Hemingway
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"In the midst of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there
lay an invincible summer."--Albert Camus
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