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Feminism and Diversity

snooper2

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11. I was in school in 93' and 94' taking telecom classes...

Reply to TlalocW (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 11:04 AM

Feb 2012

Out of 18 of us in that associate degree program, there was 1 female.

She ended up dropping out-

AC/DC theory had zero women and if I remember correctly Robotics had two out of 15 or 20 folks.

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