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-====== Fall 2011 Kickoff Event ======
+====== Fall 2011 Scenarios Discussion ======
-===== Opening =====
+===== Your unexpected qualifications =====
-Present how the conditions for women have gotten better but that there are still issues.  Show a little about science in general and each field through the ages (e.g., conditions in 1971, 1991, and 2011).  Maybe a little from each woman prof about what she loves about science and what is most challenging and how she copes with it.
-===== Scenarios Discussion =====
-==== Your unexpected qualifications ====
 **Scenario:** From a professor "Congratulations on your award!  You really deserve it: your high GPA, your research experience, and you're a woman, so you really deserve this!"
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   * this may be tricky because you can't really react to this from a professor
-==== Jealous classmate ====
+===== Jealous classmate =====
 **Scenario:** "Oh, you got into Best University?  I didn't, and I have a higher GPA than you.  But, you're a woman, so they probably had a couple of spots reserved for women."
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 **Answer Discussion:**
-==== Jealous Boyfriend ====
+===== Jealous Boyfriend =====
 **Scenario:** "You spend a lot of time with Joe in the lab.  And, you always talk about him.  You can't _just_ be friends with a boy.  That's how we hooked up, remember?  I don't think you can work in that lab anymore."
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 **Answer Discussion:**
-==== Unevolved Classmate ====
+===== Unevolved Classmate =====
 **Scenario:** Why are you in WITS?  Are you some kind of feminist?"  (probably would mention more about WITS, to help promote their group)
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 **Answer Discussion:**
-==== Interview with advisor/boss ====
+===== Interview with advisor/boss =====
 **Scenario:** the you-can't-get-married-or-can't-have-a-baby
 **Answer Discussion:**
-==== Insensitive Boss ====
+===== Insensitive Boss =====
 **Scenario:** Woman: "Our colleague comments on the outfits that the women in his classes wear, and it makes the students uncomfortable."  Boss: "What kind of things does he say?"  Woman: "Oh, just that the dress is pretty or something like that."  Boss: "I hate to think that we live in a world where we can't compliment each other."
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 **Answer Discussion:**
-==== Tackling a Challenge ====
+===== Tackling a Challenge =====
 **Scenario:** Boss: "A scientific big-wig is coming to our office.  I'd like you to talk to her for 30 minutes."  You: "What me?  Oh, no.  I wouldn't know what to talk to her about.  Why don't you ask someone else and if no one else can, then come talk to me."
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 **Answer Discussion:**
-==== Assigned Female-Stereotypical Tasks ====
+===== Assigned Female-Stereotypical Tasks =====
 **Scenario:** Boss: "You are so much more organized than the rest of us guys: you're in charge of taking notes for this meeting."
 **Answer Discussion:**