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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Why are many low-income women fat? (was Re: Separate but Equal?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.224221.7648@netcom.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:42:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.024702.28703@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec22.182225.1768@netcom.com> <BzoCsr.Lw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BzoCsr.Lw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >
- >>>In article <BzML6w.Hxw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >
- >>>>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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- Opps, you're right, it does say that. One of the hazards of attempting
- to write in a multiple-interrupt situation (at work), I occasionally
- loose track of what I was writing, or occasionally miss things.
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- Thanx for the correction.
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- >>Rich
- >>payner@netcom.com
- >
- >Lenore Levine
- >levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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