Gender

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Gender Technology

• Bridging the Technological Gap

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What is The Technological Gap?

• Gender Bias
• The favoring of one sex over the other on the
  Internet
• The gender gap only exist between males and
  females
• Females are affect greatly by this issue

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How Does this Begin?

• Participation rates of females decline once in
  college
• Women are not encouraged to take higher levels
  of computer courses
• Females feel less equipped to deal with computers
  than males

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What Causes the Gender Gap?

• Lack Of Role Models for Young Girls
• Children should have the opportunity to see guest
  speakers from both genders
• Lack Of Parental Support
• Parents tend to encourage boys to play with
  videogames and computers
• Girls having a poor self image

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Ways to Close the Gender Gap

• Moms spending time on the computer will their
  daughters
• Instructors should have girls actively
  interested will computers
• Manufactures can begin creating software to
  appeal to both genders

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More Information on the Technological Gap

• To help close the gap please refer to
• http//womensmedia.com/girls-tech-gap.html
• http//lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/access/gender.html
• http//www.arielpcs.com/resources/articles/etrd.sh
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