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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: Why are many low-income women fat? (was Re: Separate but Equal?)
- References: <1992Dec20.165324.21432@netcom.com> <BzML6w.Hxw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec22.024702.28703@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec22.182225.1768@netcom.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:00:26 GMT
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- payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
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- >>In article <BzML6w.Hxw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
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- >>>I understand from sci.math that appearance
- >>>discrimination against women *is* an issue. This newsgroup carried a
- >>>posting from a male mathematician. He was *extremely* upset, because,
- >>>in his role of evaluating job applications, he had received a
- >>>letter from a colleague, asking him to take on the "mission" of
- >>>finding out whether a female mathematician was cute or not!
-
- >Was this for a job interview or job related? Or because someone was
- >interested in meeting someone else?
-
- This was made very clear in the posting. The colleague did want
- him to find this out, so they could decide whether or not to hire her
- on this basis.
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- >Rich
- >payner@netcom.com
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- Lenore Levine
- levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
-