Stanford University site following the gender gap. A women's colleges site on expecting the best from girls. Women and minorities in science and technology. Overall, girls are much stronger. Girls are going to college.
Girls get better grades.
Girls are moving ahead. But I think it's time now to look at boys, who are falling behind. Thomas Jefferson High School computer science teacher Sally Bellacqua says she herself has seen progress since the early Atari computers were first introduced into the Fairfax County public schools a generation ago. We must have had 200 boys engulf the machine. They smelled it in the room, you know, whereas the girls stayed as far away as possible.