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"I had a boss who said flatly: I hate to hire all you girls but you’re too damned smart. By “all” he meant three but, at the time, it was rare to find even one woman in a well-placed technical position. At a meeting, he kept interrupting me to say; Gee, you sure have pretty hair. By then I realized he was teaching me a great deal about computing. It would be a complicated professional relationship, in which his occasional need for male dominance would surface." | "I had a boss who said flatly: I hate to hire all you girls but you’re too damned smart. By “all” he meant three but, at the time, it was rare to find even one woman in a well-placed technical position. At a meeting, he kept interrupting me to say; Gee, you sure have pretty hair. By then I realized he was teaching me a great deal about computing. It would be a complicated professional relationship, in which his occasional need for male dominance would surface." | ||
| − | + | <i>Shared by American computer programmer and author ★ Ellen Ullman ★ in her book <br>"Life in Code, A personal history of technology".</i> | |
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Latest revision as of 07:55, 12 June 2020
"I had a boss who said flatly: I hate to hire all you girls but you’re too damned smart. By “all” he meant three but, at the time, it was rare to find even one woman in a well-placed technical position. At a meeting, he kept interrupting me to say; Gee, you sure have pretty hair. By then I realized he was teaching me a great deal about computing. It would be a complicated professional relationship, in which his occasional need for male dominance would surface."
Shared by American computer programmer and author ★ Ellen Ullman ★ in her book
"Life in Code, A personal history of technology".
