She was tackling her first issue as editor. Now laughing at the memory, Cortina says the friend, a boy, worked out the problems. It was just a little glitch, but it was very frustrating when I had no idea why it was doing that. Educational Foundation that points to a major new gender gap in technology.
Boys clearly outnumber girls in higher-skill computer courses, says the report.
But it also notes a puzzling drop in enrollment by both sexes. A competitive nation cannot allow girls to write off technology as an exclusively male domain. Cortina believes a lot of girls suffer similar anxieties when first confronted with the complexities of computers and other technology. It's been touted primarily as a man's field. It's the whole math, science, technology thing goes together with the left brain, and that's for men.