You just type it in and no problem. It just shocked him. Yes, the assumption is that it comes easier to boys than it does for girls. Dr. Barbara Smith teaches a course on gender at Johns Hopkins University. She agrees with the A.A.U.W.'s findings and says society sends powerful messages about technology to both boys and girls.
Boys are more likely to have a computer at home.
Fathers are more likely to be using computers in the home than mothers so you have the element of the role model. But not all the experts agree with the American Association of University Women. He spent six months trying to determine if there is a technological gender gap. On that measure, there's a poverty gap, there's a race gap, there's a region gap, but there is no gender gap. But the A.A.U.W.'s Weinman defends her organization's research.