Girls, Boys, and Computers Maria Klawe Faculty of Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 grew up believing I should have been born a boy. In the late nineteen-fifties, all the things I wanted to do seemed to be reserved for boys. Whether it was climbing trees, being an astronaut or mathematician, or simply not having to wear pretty clothes... boys were always the ones in luck. Fortunately my parents, perhaps because they had four daughters and no sons, were supportive o f my boylike interests and encouraged me to believe I could succeed at just about anything.., including all that boy-stuff. As a mathematics student in university in the seventies, when I was told by male mathematicians that there were no really good women mathematicians, I would think to myself "that's because women were never given a chance". I didn't believe in genderrelated differences in ability ... just in gender-related differences in opportunity. I certainly didn't believe that boys were innately better than girls at math. Over the years since then the differences between girls' and boys' achievement in mathematics have gradually disappeared and at this point almost all educators agree they are irrelevant.
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Girls, boys, and computers
Klawe, Maria
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, Volume 34 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jun 1, 2002
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