women in computing again: sorting 3965

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I think you've said elsewhere that you started college but didn't finish. I wonder whether that might be part of the reason your mileage seems to have been so different from mine 1 -- people with degrees can be pretty snotty about the abilities of people without them 2, and if you were vocal about having a rural (farm) background, that might have also played into stereotypes ....

Or maybe DEC was sufficiently a meritocracy that none of that was a factor. I don't know; I'm asking.

1 I started to write "I don't remember encountering this atbreastude from any of the (few) women I've worked with" -- but then I started thinking about this one older woman .... This was a secretary who'd been in her job a long time and was good at it. I frequently got the impression from her that she thought I was an idiot and couldn't quite imagine why I'd been hired. I can't be sure, but based on how she treated others (male and female), I *think* the fact that I was female and younger might have had something to do with it.

2 Not saying they're right, just that that's what some of them seem to think.

-- B. L. Mbuttingill ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.