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Fear of computers is deemed as the main reason women avoid the internet in this 6 page paper on gender differences. Statistics reveal that more men are using the internet as society encourages males to pursue the sciences, while discouraging females. Solutions to the problem are explored. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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male persuasion. Of course, there is no particular reason for the phenomenon on the surface. Perhaps it goes back to that Barbie doll who didnt like math. There are certainly
more cyper-phobic women than men. It might go to the very core of gender differences as reared in a fundamentally male society, a woman is taught to "act dumb" and
steered away from science. The technology inherent in the design of the computer is frankly scary to anyone. The thought that ones and zeros run our lives sometimes makes one
think there is a higher power controlling the intricacies of the internet. After all, how could anything like that work to connect so many people together? But the internet does
work. Originally designed by the government for its own purposes ordinary citizens have jumped on the bandwagon only to create a society that revolves around its usage. The unfortunate thing
is that women have hesitated to get on board. It is as if the majority jumped and women had gotten their high heels caught on something. Many women have computers
in their homes but do not know their e-mail addresses. They are afraid to use it, or claim to have no time or interest, leaving their kids to retrieve anything
they need from its depths. It has been estimated that only about 10 percent of approximately twenty million internet users around the world, are women (Working Womens Magazine cited in
Myers, 1996). A survey found that women who do purchase computers, most of whom are in business for themselves, want the hardware to work reliably, be easy to use and
be reasonably priced (Myers, 1996). Perhaps part of the syndrome is due to their first request of reliability. Although many bugs have been worked out in todays sophisticated computer, there
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