Liza Loop papers Box 3
Folder H14
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She has the Softalk Women in Microcomputing magazine!
Loop Liza
LO*OP CTR INC
3781 Starr King Circle
Palo Alto CA 94306
A series of index cards labeled "Factors"
Card: Females more
- susceptibility to anxiety (sense of competence) {fearful, anxious, less confidence in own abilities, expect poorer prob solving, dissat. w/perf, blame failure on isability, credit luck, social desireability (?) {compliant, conforming, cooperative, responsive to peer pressure}}
Card: Males more
- potency of self-concept (when did term self-concept originate and from where?)
- personal efficacy
- control over external events
Card: Males more
- aggression (rough and tumble, dominate peers..., anti-social, tv aggressive programming, competative)
- activity levels (more active, more curious, more exploration, manipulation of objects (age 3-6), outdoors) (what books were ppl reading about this at the time? are any of these related to studies getting publicity then?); self-perception (more daring + adventurous, more accidents (physical)
- impulsivity
On back of card
Men and women are different. Everybody knows that. But how and why men and women differ is the subject of much argument. In teaching beginners to use personal computers, I notice these differenecs
Men and Women
What are they?
What do these affect the design of computer tools?
Computer Notes, Vol 4 Numb 4 March 1980 from
Monroe #2 - Orleans Boces
Center for Regional Instructional Computing
3599 Big Ridge Road
Spencerport, New York 14559
front page - "Women and Computers"
Teachers guilty of sidetracking female students away from computers, according to Joyce Hackanssson, commenting in the fall issue of Apple Education News. Computers are located in basements of math labs -- "both male bastions. Computing teachers, usually male, expect mroe from male students and respond more to their enthusiasm. We need to expect fems to learn comput, just as we expect them to master spelling words and math drills."
"Ideally, comptuer education should begin in presch or elem levels where fem techers predom; therefore the girls would have female role models. all jun high schools should require a compu course. The curric should include the basic vocab necessary for entry elvel jobs, programming, hands-on experience, and practical applications of computer education."
"Today, 53% of all american women work, yet only 4% earn over $26,000 per year. If we begin today to prep our girls for a future with a computer in it -- perhaps we can turn around that dismal stat."
Joyce - comp educ consultatnt for Children's television workshop. develops software for comput education center at sesame place in pennsylvania.
other pages: computer fair sponsored by IEEE, catalog of education software, description of MECC courseware in table form with reviews
p5: A Library Computer - to permit public to experience comp assisted instruction, to pefrom basic compu functions, and to gain exper in programming, microcomps have been isntaled in more than 5 brances of chicago public library. according to article in feb 1980 byte magazine: engineers, business men, students developing chess skills, and people balancing their checkbooks have been using the devices. which users were overlooked? what was installed on those machines to begin with?
p6: The impact of computers on privacy - survey divides respondents by income, profession, age, but not by gender or race. has this changed in traditional ways that polls are reported now?
p7: cartoons with dad explaining to housewife mom that the dumbfounded boy starying at the huge mainframe comp is to "have all the things I diddn't have when I was a kid"
p9: cartoon of women programming computer with "Go directly to jail. Do not pass go."
p9: "interface age," description of personal computer network where info will flow into world as freely as water.
p10: more cartoons
p11: Students Visist Boces Computing Center: Students invited by teacher to explore careers they were interested in pursuing in the future. three students Jamie, Dan, and Tim toured. Jamie - girl or boy? dunno. all look boyish in picture, but not sure.
addressed to Ms Liza Loop
Changes iin Proportion of Women document
chart of accountants, architects, clerics, editors/reporters, engineers, lawyers and judges, life and physical science, physicians, social scientists, college teachers, all jobs - proportino of women iin 1960 and 1977. increased across board.
"Women are now in 41% of the workforce and one in six of them is in a profession.
Source: Manpower Comments, Vol 15, No 8, Oct 1978"
from Math Science Network (with female symbol iin logo)
Math/Sci Resource Center
Mills College
Oakland, CA 94613"
Personality Development in Males and Females: The Influence of Differential Socialization
Jeanne H Block, UC BErkeley
(with Hechinger written on top in red)
based on APA talk in 1979
author at Institute of Human Development
Science Vol 210, 12 Dec 1980 p1234: Math and Sex: Are Girls Born with Less Ability?
A Johns Hopkins group says "Probably." Others are not so sure.
Looseleaf paper
Women in Sci + Math Network
Knowing about vs using
domestic uses -a ppliance
applications - writeing, networking, accting, dp
education
programming
mud map looking drawing with liza in the middle with a heart around her on back
Letter from SJSU
liza led a workshop "Expanding your horizons in math and science"
by Gina Bari Kolata
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