Yes there are stats of the ratio's of women and girls on the internet. I
will get them and submit them.
However I have one question Kat . Is your program an all girls program
(girls middle school)? I am only asking because when girls are learning
along side boys the results are different and it gets worse the older they
get. When girls work as a collective along side other girls learning
together the dynamic of the learning process also changes. I have seen this
in both capacities and there is a research project that was done where
there
were two classes taught by the exact same teacher. The girls in the mixed
gender class felt that they were left out and were not given the same
opportunities as the boys. The girls in the all girls group did not feel
that way and were able to accomplish so much more and tended to design the
class based on their interests. This did not happen with the girls in mixed
gendered class. It was the exact same class with the exact same teacher who
was fully aware of the gender equity concerns. Boys are also socialized to
believe certain stereotypes about girls and don't mind exhibiting them
either (unless they are corrected). I am glad to here that your program is
doing so well but a large number girls do not get the opportunity to learn
in the manner that you speak of. Do you have the ratio of all girls schools
to mixed gendered schools?
Shireen Mitchell
Director - Digital Sisters, Inc.
director@digital-sistas.org
www.digital-sistas.org
"Technology with Women in Mind"
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From: Kat Gullo, The Girls' Middle School <www.girlsms.org> wrote:Are there
any current figures on ratio of girls to boys and men to women involved
with the internet currently? One thing that has always been nagging at me
in these discussions is the idea that we need to find products or other
solutions to get girls involved with technology. It was a sad when Purple
Moon closed its doors and that Barbie is the most popular computer game
for girls. But, why are we hung up about these things as they relate to
the involvement of girls with computers. Perhaps a model we should focus
on is having girls create things with computers as opposed to consume
software. In a project I ran for AAUW and at my current all-girls school
that's the basis of our computer program. Girls learn to code. They start
with things like> webpages to learn the fundamentals of
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