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>For whatever reasons, the Fox community has always been an outlier. I was lucky also that my graduate department was an outlier: 4 women on a faculty of 15, lots of female grads and undergrads. OTOH, I was part of a working group on User Interface Management Systems that had faculty and PhD students from a number of different schools and I was the only woman (IIRC).
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We've talked about this before. The Fox community was a different time - not as much sunshine on things, since there was nearly zero in the way of social media. The Fox community was certainly the first and only thing of its kind (and at the time, really the only game in town)