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This 5 page paper provides an overview of women and technology and focuses on the controversial 2000 study published by AAUW. What can be done about the gender gap in computer science is discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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entering the work force, at least according to information submitted by a student regarding the American Association of University Women study that was published in 2000. This study seems to
be quite significant and has provided an impetus for change in terms of curricula in high schools, or at least in terms of fostering a relationship between girls and math
and science. Wolff (1999) contends that although traditional gaps in math and science have gotten smaller for women, a new gender gap in technology has certainly cropped up (1999). According
to the Executive Director of AAUW Janice Weinman, technology is the new boys club and although boys program and problem-solve , girls do use computers for word processing, which
is the 1990s version of typing (1999). From this account it seems as if nothing has changed. While the old stereotype of women typing in typing pools has disappeared, it
was soon replaced by the notion that masses of uneducated individuals--largely older women--would be able to do data entry or keypunching. In the early days of the computer, keypunch operators
were definitely needed. Yet, today, the technology has rendered such positions useless and so secretaries or executive assistants are still not in the higher jobs that the males seem to
obtain. This technology gap is addressed in AAUWs report (Wolff, 1999). Still, it is a rather curious thing. There is documentation that at least helps to explain why the
difference exists. For instance, high school girls and boys are just as likely to take similar amounts of science classes, but boys are still more likely than girls to take
all three core courses which are biology, chemistry and physics (Wolff, 1999). Girls also tend to take fewer computer classes in general (1999). All of these trends add up to
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