Its mission is to help girls become tech savvy with the hope that they will take on technology leadership roles. The popular Web site Girl Tech also aims to encourage girls to aspire to leadership in science, technology, and math, but uses cyberspace rather than schoolspace. MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle and former FCC commissioner Patricia Diaz Dennis have been recruited to lead the effort. Turkle has studied how girls and boys use computers in different ways and have different approaches to programming. In brief, boys tend to take a reductionist approach.
Girls tend to take a free association approach.
This conclusion will not come as a huge surprise to vigilant parents. Reading has no equal when it comes to honing critical skills. Which brings me back to Gina. On that, she won't be denied. No evening is allowed to pass without addressing it.