Re: MALES DOMINATE IN COMPUTERS

Linda Purrington (lpurring@earthlink.net)
Tue, 04 Aug 1998 14:26:28 -0700

One suggestion on how to deal with the current huge skew in favor of
boys in computer science is to provide computer classes as required
parts of communication and science programs. That way, the girls can't
get pushed out as easily. Computers are after all required in economic
life now. Note that the domination of male over female in computer
science is about equal to the gap between men and women in terms of pay
in this country.

Linda Purrington,
Title IX Advocates
lpurring@earthlink.net

> BOYS DOMINATE VIRGINIA
> COMPUTER SCIENCE CLASSES
>
> A school report in Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the nation's largest
> school districts and most affluent counties, disclosed that boys, mainly
> white and Asian, outnumber girls in their regular computer science classes
> by a 3 to 1 margin. In the Advanced Placement computer classes the ratio
> is 4 to 1. The Black and Hispanic school population reflects this same
> trend of underrepresentation in the computer classes.

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