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-====== Fall 2011 Kickoff Event ======+====== Fall 2011 Scenarios Discussion ======
  
-===== Opening =====+ * your unexpected qualifications: 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!"  (adapted from a conversation I had when choosing a winner for our dept award)
  
-Present how the conditions for women have gotten better but that there are still issues.  Show 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. +  --> this may be tricky because you can't really react to this from professor
-===== Scenarios Discussion =====+
  
 + * jealous classmate: "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."
  
-==== Your unexpected qualifications ====+ * jealous boyfriend: "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."
  
-**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!"  + unevolved classmate: "Why are you in WITS?  Are you some kind of feminist?"  (probably would mention more about WITS, to help promote their group)
  
-**Answer Discussion:** + interview with advisor/bossthe you-can't-get-married-or-can't-have-a-baby (you two may know how to frame this one)
-  * this may be tricky because you can'really react to this from a professor+
  
-==== Jealous classmate ====+ * insensitive boss (this one is real; not sure how to frame): 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."
  
-**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 couple of spots reserved for women."+ insensitive boss: you: here is what is happening to me; boss: just develop thick skin
  
-**Answer Discussion:**+ not knowing what your capable ofBoss: "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."
  
-==== Jealous Boyfriend ==== + female-stereotypical job assignments: Boss: "You are so much more organized than the rest of us: you're in charge of taking notes for this meeting."
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-**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:** +
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-==== Unevolved Classmate ==== +
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-**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:** +
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-==== Interview with advisor/boss ==== +
-**Scenario:** the you-can't-get-married-or-can't-have-a-baby +
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-**Answer Discussion:** +
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-==== Insensitive Boss ==== +
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-**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:** +
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-**Scenario:** Woman: here is an uncomfortable situation that is happening to me.  Boss: you need to toughen up and develop a thick skin +
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-**Answer Discussion:** +
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-==== Tackling a Challenge ==== +
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-**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:** +
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-==== Assigned Female-Stereotypical Tasks ==== +
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-**Scenario:** Boss: "You are so much more organized than the rest of us guys: you're in charge of taking notes for this meeting." +
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-**Answer Discussion:**+
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