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| Articles - Guardian teacher network blog |
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Girls can love computing; someone just needs to show them how |
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Thanks to the ubiquity of the internet and social media sites like Facebook, children and young adults, girls just as much as boys, now handle laptops and smartphones confidently, taking for granted their ability to use such highly complex technology without much effort.
Why is it then that the other end of this spectrum, the side which produces technology rather than just consuming it, is still widely regarded as a a "boys only" club?
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| Articles - Guardian Newspaper |
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'Geek' Perception of computer science putting off girls, expert warns |
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One of the world's leading computer scientists, Professor Dame Wendy Hall, has warned that girls are increasingly shunning her subject at school and university.
Hall, who invented a forerunner to the world wide web, said the problem of a scarcity of girls studying computer science was "getting worse" despite huge efforts from the scientific community to address the issue.
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Girls can be geeks to
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Who says you have to be a guy to be a geek? This Google senior executive is teaching a new generation that femininity and technology are a winning formula.
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If girls don't get IT, it won't get girls |
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A recent survey of high school students showed the top choices for both college major and career path are computer science and engineering - for boys, that is. But technology barely shows up on girls' radar screens. Girls are five times less likely to consider technology-related studies in college or tech-related careers. They're still bent on traditional female occupations such as teaching and health services.
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Women in Tech - the entrepreneurs |
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Do women reject computers? |
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In Rosalind Gill and Keith Grint’s Introduction to The Gender-Technology Relation, the authors discuss Sherry Turkle’s paper.They summarize her writing as saying that women enact a gender role in disliking computers, that by “rejecting computers they are doing femininity” (11).This was a particularly interesting comment in light of the fact that I am a female computer science major.So, it doesn’t really seem that I’m rejecting computers at all; it appears I am embracing them (though I am being very open in interpreting the term computer here).Was I losing femininity by choosing this major?It didn’t really feel like it.But then again I go to an all women’s college.When you attend a computer science class here, it’s 90% women.When you go to the computer lab here (to do your homework, to do a joint project with other women, to discuss assignments, to discuss life), it’s 90% women
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The Independent: Why girls need to switch onto computing |
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Britain faces a skills shortage in IT unless more girls can be encouraged to study the subject at school. No wonder the Government has decided to take action. Hilary Wilce reports
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Girls participate 5x more online than offline |
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The results of a small-scale study I have been conducting recently have indicated that, yes, girls contribute up to five times more than in offline discussions. Using the celebrated Edmodo social platform for education, I ran an experiment which involved perception of participation, online and offline discussions, and transcribed the results
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TES: Girls switched on to ICT |
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Nic Patterson, the school's head of ICT, said he was so alarmed by the decline last year that he turned to local businesses for help and advice.
He said: "We needed to show pupils how important ICT is to their future working lives. We wanted to dispel the myth that it is a difficult subject and show how vital computer skills are for popular jobs."
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Businesses called in to overcome gender stereotype |
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A SCHOOL overcame a gender stereotype and reversed a decline in girls studying ICT thanks to a partnership with local businesses.
Llandaff Cathedral School in Cardiff has seen its percentage of female GCSE technology students soar from 6% to 89% in just a year.
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Women who make videogames |
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Nearly half of the UK's video game players are women, and now they are designing and writing them too, including top sellers Gears of War 3, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. What took them so long?
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10 Things women invented |
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At the end of the 20th century, only 10 percent of all patents were awarded to female inventors [source: Bedi]. When you compile a list of the most famous inventions of the past few centuries, few women will show up as the creators of those items. It's not that women lack ingenuity or a creative spirit, though; it's just that women have faced many hurdles in receiving credit for their ideas. |
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