Is There Such a Thing as "Casual Sexism"?
I've been noticing many more articles about sexism and the Web. I'm going to try to string some of these articles together in this thread to raise the issue of why more women and girls aren't in computer science AND why girls may not play as many video games (it might have something to do with the reception at online gaming rooms). The first article was a story on KUOW about UW and young women in computer science . One interesting line: “One of the things that parents tend to do is they’re much more protective of their daughter’s time online,” said Rane Johnson , a principal research director at Microsoft Research Connections. Johnson said parents want to protect their daughters from the unknown dangers of the Internet. “And so girls are experiencing gaming or the Internet or computer science or programming a lot less than their brothers,” she said. So first, is that true at your home? Do you worry more about your daughter online than your son? ...