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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!john.hendrikx
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 01:12:51 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Women on the net.
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
- Message-ID: <john.hendrikx.45jg@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 10 Jan 96 Per Jacobsen wrote to All:
-
- >> Ms. Red Burns who runs the interactive telecomunications program at
- >> N.Y.U. believes that the web is still a male dominated and female
- >> unfriendly, but is becomeing less so, because of the ease of use of
- >> netbrowsers such as netscape.
-
- PJ> So netscape does have some good points, eh?
-
- So she is saying that because web-browsers are user-unfriendly
- (women-unfriendly?) there are so little women on the net?
-
- I think she's missing some important factors, like the ratio of man/women using
- computers.
-
- Otherwise stating a thing like that would give you the impression that women
- require easy-to-use programs to get on the net while men don't...
-
- Grtz John
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