Description: make your future better-climb the techladder to sucess
make your future better-climb the techladder to sucess
Why are girls so poorly represented in advanced technology classes? Why do so few women opt for careers in technology? A recent report answers those questions and more. What can you do to help the girls in your classrooms become tech-savvy women?
According to Sharon Schuster, past president of the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation , there is “clear evidence that girls and women lag in interest and participation” in the use of technology. Concerns about that lag led to the formation, in 1998, of the AAUW Educational Foundation’s Commission on Technology, Gender, and Teacher Education. The commission’s charge was to answer the question, “How do we educate girls to become tech-savvy women?”