A Title IX for the Technology Divide?

Can our efforts to close the gender gap in sports teach us
how to resolve inequities in access to technology, too?

By Margaret Riel

Resources and Further Information:

Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children. The American Association of University Women Educational Foundation Research, Dept. RR.INT, 1111 16th St. N.W., Washington, DC 20036; tel: 202-728-7602; e-mail: foundation@aauw.org. www.aauw.org/2000/gg.html

J. Becker. "Who’s Wired and Who’s Not." In Children and Computers (in press), The Center on the Future of Children, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, 300 Second St., Suite 200, Los Altos, CA 94022; fax: 650-948-6498. www.futureofchildren.org

K. Burge. Multimedia Computer Learning: An Examination of Gender Difference in Computer Learning Behaviors at the Elementary Grade Level. University of California Dissertation, UMI number 9932086, 1999.

R.J. Coley, J. Cradler, and P.K. Engel. Computers and Classrooms: The Status of Technology in U.S. Schools. Princeton, NJ: ETS Policy Information Center, 1997. www.ets.org/research/pic/compclass.html

T. Novak and D. Hoffman. "Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use, Project 2000." Paper presented at Vanderbilt University, Feb. 2, 1998. www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/papers/race/science.html

Digital Divide. TV program by Public Broadcasting Service, January 28, 2000. www.pbs.org/digitaldivide

Falling Through the Net III: Defining the Digital Divide. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, July 1999. www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide

Roper 1998 Youth Report. Available online at: www.roper.com/news

Teaching, Learning and Computing. Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, University of California at Irvine, 3200 Berkeley Pl., Irvine, CA 92697; tel: 949-824-6387; fax: 949-824-8091; e-mail: tlc@uci.edu. www.crito.uci.edu/TLC

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