Task - Who studes computing subjects?

What is the situation where you are studying? How many girls and how many boys study computing subjects post - 16?
If there is a significant difference between the two then investigate why this is the case. What impact do you think it has on girls and on society as a whole?

Generally there are more boys doing computing sciences whereas more girls go for social sciences, for example, physcology etc...

One of the main factors in this are that girls are discouraged throughout their life not to follow these paths and to follow a more "womenly role" of child care and cleaning. This spans back to earlier years when women did not have the vote and were expected to stay home and do the washing while the men went to war or to do some manual or "clever" things. People think that women are "not as good as men" in some cases and commonly today women are not payed as much as men, for example, women who play premiership football do not get payed as much as even second or third league men, they hold down jobs as well and sometimes, the women are better than the male players and are more aggressive.

It is all to do with "the fitting of roles" in society, you must be an upstanding member of the community and women should walk around with babies on their backs while men have briefcases.