====== Fall 2011 Scenarios Discussion ======

 * 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)

  --> this may be tricky because you can't really react to this from a professor

 * 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."

 * 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."

 * unevolved classmate: "Why are you in WITS?  Are you some kind of feminist?"  (probably would mention more about WITS, to help promote their group)

 * interview with advisor/boss: the you-can't-get-married-or-can't-have-a-baby (you two may know how to frame this one)

 * 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."

 * insensitive boss: you: here is what is happening to me; boss: just develop a thick skin

 * not knowing what your capable of: 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."

 * 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."