IT Gender GAP?

Panelists participating in a Web cast hosted by the National Science Foundation last week suggested numerous ways to attract more girls to the information technology field. Among their tips: Encourage girls to try science activities that can be messy or "gross" and stress technology's "human context" by noting its potential to help solve the world's problems.

We talk about the gender gap in education with the girls taking higher order mathematics and sciences. The same gender gap is also seen with technology.