Prepare tech-savvy teachers. Now there's an easy answer. Let's put the technology gender gap on the list of social problems our public schools are supposed to solve. In their spare time. Change the public face of computing.
Girls think that computers are for geeks and nerds.
Maybe that's because the computer culture is comprised largely of geeks and nerds. Truth is, you sit a boy and a girl in front of a computer and the boy takes the mouse while the girl takes notes. You push girls to develop an interest in complex computer games, and they'll revert to Barbie make-overs every time. What's going on in the technology industry is just a high-profile microcosm of the cultural status quo. We haven't figured it out in Real Life.