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And then you start learning about the different distribution of ownership and access to personal computers among boys and girls, and it looks like the personal
by jacalata 9y ago
And then you start learning about the different distribution of ownership and access to personal computers among boys and girls, and it looks like the personal computer actually introduced the interest difference. The book Unlocking The Clubhouse has a bunch of discussion on this topic, if you're curious.
- ElmntOfSurprise 9y agoYou mean that boys like computers more --> they buy more computers (or nag their parents about getting one), or that parents are more prone to give computers to boys --> girls never have the chance to get as interested? Interestingly, teenage girls seem to have more access to (desktop) computers than boys have nowadays: http://www.pewinternet.org/files/old-media/Files/Reports/2013/PIP_TeensandTechnology2013.pdf http://www.pewinternet.org/files/old-media/Files/Reports/201...
- cropsieboss 9y agoJust like teenage girls had more instrument playing experience than boys during an era when blues and jazz were starting to develop. Yet men lead the genre.
- jacalata 9y agoThe second one.