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Joy Teague Pull Quotes
Joy Teague received her PhD in 2000 and immediately retired from the Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Joy was a pioneer in the research into the experiences of women in computing. She worked for some time as a programmer before entering the teaching profession at the college level where she was frequently the only woman in the department.
This webpage gives excerpts taken from the interview of Joy Teague conducted on the 14th of January 2006 in Clifton Springs, Vicotira, Australia by Barbara Boucher Owens The entire interview and transcript are also available from here.
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Joy Teague
Retired from Deakin University
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"I read that article by Ellen Spertus [Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists? ] and that also had a major influence on me because I had never felt discriminated against. Yet, so much of what she said I could see related to me and prior to that I had never thought about myself being discriminated against. All of my colleagues always treated me as an equal. But I had a heavier load than anybody else in the department. I was more junior than most of the people in the department. And there were all sorts of things in Ellen's paper that applied to me so I started to view the world differently then." "When I read Ellen's paper [I realized that] if I'd been a man I would have been a senior lecturer; I was still a lecturer at that time. And so that is when I started taking an interest in women in computing and discrimination and that sort of thing and started to work more closely with Val Clarke who was the psychologist [at Deakin]." Link |
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