In addition, many women had access to a computer at home, but did not control it. Their brothers or fathers owned the machine. The women students just used it but did not go outside the boundaries of the software they had been shown. If students have their own computer and control their computing environment, they will have a great advantage in computing courses. Computing is a Time-consuming Subject.
Some students realize that computing eats up time.
This can be a great pleasure or a great detriment. My family and I have one. We've had one since I was 12 years old. I could live in the computer lab 24 hours a day at school. But another female CIS major, with a lower comfort level on PCs, had difficulty finding the time to use the computer lab.