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Reasons Why Female Students Choose to Study Senior IT or Not
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Chao, Shu-Hua – Australian Educational Computing, 2009
Research has shown that girls do not participate as much as boys in Information Technology (IT) in the senior years of high school. Despite research in the 1990s which identified the under-representation of girls in IT, the same pattern still continues. In addition, the complex reasons for this gender divide, and how to counter it, remain unclear.…
Descriptors: Role Models, Females, Gender Differences, Information Technology