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In article <"swan.cl.ca.438:18.11.92.14.10.47"@cl.cam.ac.uk> Michael.Hinchey@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk (Michael Hinchey) writes:

>  rosalind@logcam.co.uk (Rosalind Barden) writes :

> |When Mike states that 'lots of "ladies" attended the dinner', this is
> |not quite accurate.

> Sorry, "lots" was perhaps an exaggeration, but I was pleased that quite
> a number of ladies did attend.

> |There were few women at the conference and all those that I spoke to were
> |angry that women can still be treated this way.

> It was not only the ladies who were angry; I thin the vast majority of
> the gentlemen at the conference felt this way too.  

It may well be -- but certainly it wasn't evident.  Darell Inc had a
lot to say about almost anything in his humorous talk, but nothing
about this common feeling of the women and "the vast majority of the
gentlemen" present.  

On a similar point: Rosalind did (rightly) object to the use of the
term "chairman" for her chairing one of the sessions.  But I didn't
see any of the men chairing raising a similar objection.  The use of
the term "chairman" is sexist no matter if the person chairing is male
or female.

-hossein
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