Despite our best efforts

[plakboek]

Any discipline with a significant gender imbalance is the poorer for it.

A recent report in The Age newspaper indicated that "Google Australia can't find any female engineers who want to work for it. Internationally, the search engine behemoth strives to employ workers from many backgrounds, a recognition that its customers also come from every

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[anonymous]

Its interesting to read the research on gender and computer games:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr/pdf/inkpen.1995a.pdf Playing Together Beats Playing Apart, Especially for Girls Kori Inkpen

http://www.edgelab.ca/publications/jcmst94.pdf “We Have Never-Forgetful Flowers In Our Garden:”Girls’ Responses To Electronic Games. 1994. K. Inkpen, R. Upitis, M. Klawe, J. Lawry, A. Anderson, M. Ndunda, K. Sedighian, S. Leroux, and D.Hsu

http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=209&action=article Using Games to Promote Girls' Positive Attitudes Toward Technology by Richard Van Eck

Tony Forster
http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/

[plakboek]

Thanks Tony, some interesting research reports. :-)