Dear RR, I am firmly convinced that women can do anything except play right guard for the Green Bay Packers, and most men can't do that, either. Look at all that Marilyn Masten has done. Having hired and trained men and women for industry, I can make this broad claim based on experience. In schools, I never let girls in math classes get away with, "I don't need this; I am a girl," or "I can't do Algebra; girls have a hard time with math." Having been employed in large companies for years, such as GE, I know that they hire and promote /engineers/. English majors may spell correctly, but they have the wrong background for such companies. I was an engineer by trade only, not education, so I had to leave GE for smaller companies to get ahead. My education was MBA. Tom [email protected] wrote: > > Thanks Tom > > Sorry for the delay in writing. I'm a bit behind in reading e-mails as > usual. You are right. There aren't many women in my profession. Off hand I can > think of 3 others besides myself in my company of 4000 employees. There may be > some I don't know. It's interesting to say the least. It's also a bit > uncomfortable traveling to meetings and being the only female present. In my new job > I have to travel to attend a quarterly meeting and I am the only female > there. Oh well such is life... haha.... I'm used to it by now. It sure doesn't > feel like I've been doing this for 20 years. > > Oh by the way. I loved Math when I was in school. But it wasn't until High > School when I had an excellent Math teacher who took the time with me before it > actually sunk in. I remember my 7th grade math teacher telling me I would > never be any good at math and how it hurt because Math was my favorite subject. > Well I struggled through it some how and earned my degree in spite of his > prediction. > > Ronda > > Dear RondaRed > > Good for you! > > As a teacher in my second career (and as a one time radio ham), I know > that about 90% of engineering students are men. Yet, I have taught math > and science to many brilliant girls who could have become outstanding > engineers. But, somehow they never got there. I suppose they became > sociology majors or communication majors. I have often wondered why. > It think it is cultural, because after WWII when many millions of > Russian men were killed, Russian women became the engineers and scientists. > > Tom the bewildered > >

I DID play Right Guard for the Green Bay Packers. You must have missed it. Could you concoct a recipe for Peacock Haggis? My daughter was once married to a Scotsman (didn't take. Irish tempers and Scottish tempers are a volatile mixture) But he didn't like Haggis either. They have something here in Shelby, NC, which they think they invented but it is only Philadelphia Scrapple made south of Philly. NO, I don't eat that either. And don't anybody write and tell me how good it was when mama made it for breakfast and served it with maple syrup. I'll take your word for it. I have a problem about where my loyalties lay. I am a MacAteer, a MacIntyre, a Lamont (pronounced Lammit, dammit which became McClymont) an O'Cleirigh and a Loftus, plus an Irish Armstrong who probably wandered over the border. They all want me to wear THEIR pins etc. And who knows what Pryors are? Are my Gardners really Gordons? Very confusing. Marilynn IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas S. Fiske" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] chosen occupations? > Dear RR, > > > > In