Activity 2

The overall opinion is that more boys are taking computer related subjects than girls. This is reflected all throughout the real world. For example, at Abbeyfields School (my school) there is one AS ICT class. In that class there is 4 girls and 10 boys. This information is shown as a pie chart below.

This is only where I live, in Northampton. From information provided by a family member she told me of the boy to girl ratio in her GCSE ICT class in central London. And the findings where the same. In her class there were 24 boys and only 6 girls. Again below is a piechart to show these results.

After seeing that these results in two different schools were similar I began to think. What effect would this have on the females later on in life and how this will affect society as a whole. Firstly, as jobs are now becoming more integrated with the use of computers these girls are being put to a disadvantage. This could potentially affect their chances of getting the jobs involving computers and IT. This will also have an affect on the wider society. By having a belief that girls don’t have particular interest in ICT, will mean that it is a cycle in which few girls go into jobs that use this technology.