Stressed Out! A National Study of Women and Men Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty, Their Uses of Technology, and Levels of Professional and Personal Stress

Abstract

We used to worry a lot about technology-challenged women. Researchers noted that little girls were driven away from the computers i n their schools by more aggressive little boys. When girls became adolescents they lost interest in computer-based education. Girls tended to play fewer games on computers, and game-producing companies didn't design games for girls. When the Internet was developed, girls were not very visible. We worried that they would never go online. And when we looked at the rate of entry to computer and technologybased fields, we noted that the number of men in these programs far outweighed the number of women.These days we have worried a lot less about women. Jupiter Media Metrix reported that the numbers of women online surpassed those of men in 2000. Depending on the statistics on which you rely, women make up 51% to 52% of the total online population in the United States.' More games now target girls than ever before. And research by the AAUW Educational Foundation finds that girls are not as interested in careers in computer science because they find it boring.But girls' socialization to the computer could have effects that persist into adulthood. Though women may well be more proficient in their use of the computer, they may not have recovered from the influences that affected their attitudes toward technology. This study examines the gender differences that manifest themselves when journal-

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