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AND TECHNOLOGY: CLOSING THE GENDER GAP |
Is
the technological revolution leaving girls and women behind? The
gender gap is obvious in the tech industry, where there are strikingly
few women executives. It is also evident in high schools, where
only a small fraction of computer science students are girls. What's
keeping girls away from computers? Where will this leave them in
the 21st century? Can we, as a nation, afford to leave half our
population off of the technology bandwagon?
On this
edition of The Merrow Report, John Merrow talks with Cornelia
Brunner of the Center
for Children and Technology and Donna
Milgram of the Institute
for Women in Trades, Technology & Science about closing the
technology gender gap. How do we get girls to connect? |
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10/26/99 |
ARTICLES
"Girls
Soak Up Technology in Schools of Their Own," Katie Hafner,
The New York Times, 9/23/99.
Education Week:
"Private
Coed Schools Find Benefits in Single-Sex Classes," Jeff
Archer, 4/8/98.
"Computer
Classes Aren't Just for Boys Anymore," Mary Anne Zehr,
1/21/98.
Issue
Summary: Gender Equity
Technology
Counts '99: Building the Digital Curriculum
American
Association of University Women
Chantilly
Academy, VA
GIRL TECH
National Science
Foundation
FACTS
In the next century, 65% of the economy will be based on information-technology.
Only 17% of the students who took the1998 Computer Science AP
exam were girls.
7.2% of the executives at Fortune 500 technology firms are women.
62% of women who went to single sex schools felt they had been
better prepared for college math and science than women from co-ed
schools.
In New York, the ratio of girls to boys in the computer lab after
school went from two-to-twenty five to one-to-one after an intervention
program designed to attract girls was implemented.
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