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====== Fall 2011 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!"  

**Answer Discussion:**
  * this may be tricky because you can't really react to this from a professor

===== 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."

**Answer Discussion:**

===== 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."

**Answer Discussion:**

===== 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)

**Answer Discussion:**

===== Interview with advisor/boss =====
**Scenario:** the you-can't-get-married-or-can't-have-a-baby

**Answer Discussion:**

===== 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."

**Answer Discussion:**

**Scenario:** Woman: here is an uncomfortable situation that is happening to me.  Boss: you need to toughen up and develop a thick skin

**Answer Discussion:**

===== 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."

**Answer Discussion:**

===== 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:**