On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Brolin Empey <bro...@brolin.be> wrote:
>  This subject is covered in Ellen Spertus’s 1991 paper titled “Why are
> There so Few Female Computer Scientists?”:
>
> <http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pap/pap.html>

Thanks for the link.  Reading it reminds me of the time I was writing
a  paper which had many examples of computer users.  For half of them
I used female pronouns.  I was amused and slightly disturbed that my
co-author (from the Netherlands) fixed my "mistakes" by changing them
all to male.

--Ben

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