[Edu-sig] BBC NEWS UK Education GCSE 'gender gap' sparksconcern

[Jason Cunliffe]

> Perhaps folks are making free choices, at levels of complexity we can not
> hope (nor should particularly care)
> to understand, and what should be done about it is nothing.

Could be. I was concerned more about the overall presentation of "IT" and
computational literacy issues than gender.
But strongly suspect there are still all sorts of assumptions/stereotypes
kicking around about boys vs girls and what IT is and can be. From the school
curriculum down and from the kids up.. and vice versa

./Jason