| as possible.

 

short teria look pretty good, prospects for
tomorrow's wonen look even better. With
computers a fixture in more and more
schools, including elementary schools,
children of both sexes will grow up
accepting computers in their lives the way
they accept Dick, Jane, and Spot...

"There certainly was a lot of
boys-use-machines-and-girl s-play-
with-dolls at one time," Effros says, "but
I don't think parents are doing that to
their kids any more." Parents ask him for
prograns for their children regardless of
sex, and the kids are responding: "I'm
seeing as many young girls interested in
computers as I'm seeing young boys."
Effros even identifies age 15 as a kind of
threshold: girls who are now under 15, he
believes, will have grown up without
computer anxiety and will face minimal job
discrimination in data processing as
adults.

Anderson suggests that the crucial
factor is for computers to be inade
available to children as early and often
... All the research
indicates that boys and girls are equally

' able to understand computer programs,”

says Anderson. "To the extent that women
are underutilized in the computer
industry, these findings may help to
counteract misconceptions of their
abilities."

..-4s greater numbers of people enter
the field for money rather than love, a
more personal touch will be needed to
develop software that is more than one
computer science graduate talking to
another, a situation that Jordan describes
as a major frustration among computer
executives and educators. She cites one
expert who declares that “the much
talked-about software crisis is due mainly
to prograimers' personality defects."
It's interesting to speculate on whether
women are now being recruited in part to
"humanize" data processing or perhaps
whether their ever increasing numbers in
the field are helping to bring about a

 

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natural evolution--and eventual
revolution--in software.

Extracted fror "Lo Women iesist

Computers?"

By Ellen Jaffe cClain

OJriqinally published in Popular Computing, ©
January 1982 |

 

Employment Opport unity

A full-time regular instructor is required,
by Douglas College, to initiate, develop
and teach courses in Computing Science at
the first and second year university level.

In addition, the faculty member will be
expected to teach a variety of first and

second year university level courses in
Mathematics when required.

The preferred candidate will have a gradu-
ate degree in at least one of these disci-
plines and significant experience in the
field of computing science.

Please apply in writing, quoting competi-
tion #83-792, prior to May 7, 1983 to the
Personnel Department of Douglas College

 

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