[techtalk] career/family question

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey All,
  Even if you could dispose of gender why would you want to? It seems to
me that in terms of dealing with each other as human beings that gender
plays an important part. Men and women have different ways of
communicating their points. It has often been my experience that getting
a 'women's point of view' has allowed me to look at things in a way that
would not have occured to me before. That in itself could be considered
'gender indifferent' but I definetely believe that its understanding and
acceptance of others ideas whether gender related or not that will help.
Harry

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Davida Schiff wrote:

> Unfortunately gender does matter. In 1972 I received a draft notice to go to
> Viet Nam (lucky lottery winner...lol). Seems they misspelled my name. Being
> (obviously) female did not matter and I had to have a genetic work up done
> to prove that  I was indeed a  female. My birth certificate was not accepted
> either. So much for living in this mans' world.
> 
> Davida


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