Volume 1
Issue 1
16 March 1998
Gender
Inequalities in Education
- Girls: Just Look Beautiful
- Teacher of the Year?
- Hammers Are For Boys and Needles Are For Girls
The
Gender Gap in the Computing Field
Whitmore
High School: A Case Study of Computer Usage
Computer
Projects for Mother and Daughter
Expanding
Your Horizons in Math and Science
Computers
and Technology: Differences In Gender
Gender
Bias In Educational Software
Educational
Software For Girls
- Purple Moon: Thanks but No Thanks for Rockett's New School
- Girl Tech - Not Girl Friendly Enough
- Her Interactive
- Broderbund - Classroom Software Done Right
Computers
In the Classroom: What is the Effect on the Gender
Gap?
The teacher is writing a list of inventors and their discoveries on the board:
- Elias Howe sewing machine
- Robert Fulton steamboat
- Thomas A. Edison light bulb
- James Otis elevator
- Alexander Graham Bell telephone
- Cyrus McCormick reaper
- Eli Whitney cotton gin
- Orville and Wilbur Wright airplane
A girl raises her hand and asks, "It looks like all the inventors were men. Didn't women invent anything?" The teacher does not add any female inventors to the list, nor does he discuss new scholarship recognizing the involvement of women in inventions such as the cotton gin. He does not explain how hard it was in times past for women to obtain patents in their own names, and therefore we may never know how many female inventors are excluded from the pages of our history books. Instead he grins, winks, and says, "Sweetheart, don't worry about it. It's the same with famous writers and painters. It's the man's job to create things and the woman's job to look beautiful so she can inspire him." (Failing at Fairness, pg. 6)
