She has no grand thoughts about a high-paying technology job. The number of computer science degrees awarded to women is hovering below 30 percent at the same time technology companies are begging for highly skilled employees. A recent report by the American Association of University Women backs up those fears. It concluded that girls have the ability to learn and use computers, but they are turned off by technical careers that they view as full of geeky guys in windowless offices who toil at keyboards for hours. As a result, they are taking themselves off the path to high-paying jobs in the computer industry, and they're not learning skills that could give them an advantage in any career that uses computers.
Guys are more computer-type people.
Just looking at it, all the programming and these funny-looking things on the paper. The reason why you see more men doing computer stuff is that girls are more ambitious than that. Girls Like E-Mail, Not Games Several girls in the study, as well as Katy and some of her classmates, also criticized the popular computer games for being much more appealing to boys than girls. Girls do keep up with boys when it comes to using computers for leisure activities like surfing the Internet and sending e-mail, said Pam Haag, director of research for the AAUW educational foundation, which issued the report for the organization. The areas where technology is being designed and created is where we see a dearth of women.