Volume 1 Issue 1 16 March 1998

Introduction Gender Inequalities in Education Girls: Just Look Beautiful Teacher of the Year? Hammers Are For Boys and Needles Are For Girls Gender, Computing, and Kids The Gender Gap in the Computing Field Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow Whitmore High School: A Case Study of Computer Usage Part One: The Bright, White Boys' Lunch Club Part Two: Girls and Computer Science Boys Muscle Girls Out Girls Need Space Bennet School 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? Beyond Equal Access Last Words About the Authors References

Hammers Are For Boys and Needles Are For Girls A few years ago my daughter came home upset over her grade. When I looked at her paper, I got more angry than she was. At the top of the worksheet were the faces of a man and a woman. At the bottom were different objects - nails, a saw, a sewing needle, thread, a hammer, a screwdriver, a broom. The directions said to draw a line from the man to the objects that belong to him and a line from the woman to the objects that go with her. In our house my husband does the cooking and I do the repair work, so you can imagine what the lines on my daughter's paper looked like. There was a huge red F in the middle of her worksheet. I called the teacher right away. She was very understanding and assured me the F wouldn't count. A small victory, I thought, and forgot about it. This year my son is in her class. Guess what he brought home last week. Same worksheet - same F. Nothing had changed at all. (Failing at Fairness, pg. 8).

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