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Girls now surpass boys in nearly every measure of academic success. Yet, even as girls open new gender gaps by outpacing their male peers in most subjects, men still receive roughly seventy seven percent of the bachelor’s degrees awarded in engineering and eighty five percent of those in computer science. So, why aren’t girls choosing to enter these critical fields of the future?
Why girls should be encouraged to tinker - Holy Kaw!
In 2008, 56% of all AP test-takers were female, 51% who took the calculus AP test were female, but only 19% of the Computer Science test takers were female.
We need a root cause analysis of the gender in IT problem | Adventures in Corporate Education
Just as girls (presumably) write in diaries more than boys, teen girls also tend to blog more than their male counterparts, a new study finds. But boys post more video, it says. (Credit: Pew Internet & American Life Project)
Report: Girls blog, boys post video | News Blog - CNET News
Danah Boyd
My name is danah boyd and I am a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research , a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School , a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center , and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales .Weblogs (“blogs”), frequently modified webpages containing individual entries displayed in reverse chronological sequence, are the latest mode of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to attain widespread popularity.
