girls rule and boys drool
we have a bunch of undergraduate interns here for the summer, working on research projects. Something like 12 guys, and 1 girl. Which, seems a little weird (the boy/girl ratio of grad students is just about 50/50, which is great and has given me the false impression that that's normal), but could be just chance and that's fine.
here's the thing that pissed me off today. The interns have been giving their "What I Did with My Summer" presentations, and from the interactions today, it was very obvious that the 1 girl intern has been totally excluded from the social aspect of the intern group. Not like they go out for dinner or drinking or hiking or biking, but they all work in the same room, with not even cubicle walls to divide them, so it's pretty chummy in there...but they fully ignore her. I don't really think it's intentional, or mean, they just don't think to include her.
I'm mad. Seriously, isn't computer science any better today than it was 40 years ago when my mom was the single female in her department? Really. It's ridiculous. Grr grr grr.
here's the thing that pissed me off today. The interns have been giving their "What I Did with My Summer" presentations, and from the interactions today, it was very obvious that the 1 girl intern has been totally excluded from the social aspect of the intern group. Not like they go out for dinner or drinking or hiking or biking, but they all work in the same room, with not even cubicle walls to divide them, so it's pretty chummy in there...but they fully ignore her. I don't really think it's intentional, or mean, they just don't think to include her.
I'm mad. Seriously, isn't computer science any better today than it was 40 years ago when my mom was the single female in her department? Really. It's ridiculous. Grr grr grr.