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Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

Hector <sant9442@gmail.com> Tue, 01 May 2012 17:43 UTC

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Monique Morrow wrote:
> One of the points I discussed in NYC last week was also the role of media
> and what is depicted in film, TV and so on wrt girls-women, a topic of the
> Miss Representation initiative:
> 
> http://www.missrepresentation.org/
> 
> Monique

My young artist daughter depicted the woman dilemma in her well 
received, career advancing gallery showing painting:

    http://www.jaclynsantos.com/images/large/g.jpg

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