In theory, we always speak about Gender Equity and Equal Opportunities for Female. And, some men even do not hesitate to claim that Girls have much more chances of having opportunities. And, some women do not get tired by speaking about the dictatorship of male dominant society towards girls. If they, both parties, are asked to explain the practical interpretation of their view, most of them fail to do so. While on practice, even themselves, deal differently to male and female.
In general practice, Girls are never benefited equally as Boys. To prove the statement, we need not to direct your statistics only to Asia or Africa; Europe, American Continent and Australia; that always talks about Humanitarian, Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity; also fails to maintain its statistics. These countries are now the super power of the world and Scientific, Engineering and Management Skills make them super power. It means that there was/is a time when Science, Engineering and Management were/are the highest priority areas of these countries. Priority created platform. Platform created Environment. Environment created opportunities. And, the output of the sum of them is the production that lead them to the top of the world.
So, its obvious that participation of female during these period should be on a good ratio while compared to male, if the claim of these countries is true, which always say they have equal opportunities and platform for female as well. But statistics speak the different fact. And, the observed fact is that they never had equal opportunities or platform or environment for women as compared to men.
In 1990, 13% of PhDs in computer science went to women. Only 7.8% of computer science professors were female. And, the percentage of female computer science students appears to be increasing at only a slow rate or even decreasing. This statistics about US raises multiple questions, among which one must be solved to understand the real scenario. What is the major cause of the declining number of female students in Computer Science ? are they really given equal priorities or importance ? or Girls are themselves not-interested on this area although equal opportunities are given ? And the fact again shows that they are NOT given equal priorities as given to boys.
There are various factors, even on western world, that creates discriminating environment for Female. Summarizing some of them are enough to prove the scene.
1. Social Bias:
You are on a party. You are very happy today since you met someone just this afternoon. When another person asked you about the reason of your happiness, you described about that friend and also mentioned that your friend is an Engineer. You spent more around 30 minutes on praising your friend’s talent, abilities and success. Then, that next person will definitely ask What is his name ?And, here I do not mean that ‘he’ is just a representation.
Even in childhood, Boys use to have more vehicles, toy animals, military toys, educational‑art materials and sports equipment while girls use to have more dolls, doll houses, and domestic objects.
On one rack in a computer store, covers in comic book style depicted such games as Olympic Decathlon (4 male athletes on cover), Cannonball Blitz (3 men in battle), Swashbuckler (9 male pirates), Thief (1 male detective), Alien Typhoon (1 male space explorer) and Money Munchers (1 man in a suit). In all, 28 men and 4 women were illustrated on the covers. The women were on the covers of Monopoly (2 men and 2 women playing the game), Palace in Thunderland (1 very fat queen), and Wizard and the Princess (1 wizard standing, 1 princess in supplicating position on floor).
2. Bias in Education Environment:
While attending on high school career counseling classes, many women felt they had been given inadequate advice on careers and choices of subject‑-careers advisers seemed to be fixated on nursing and teaching, and some were completely floored by requests for information about nuclear physicists or process engineers [Ferry et al. 1982, pages 27‑28].
when girls are in science classes, teachers sometimes treat them differently. A teacher came to give a demonstration in physics and said,
`Now this is going to make a pretty big noise, so any of you girls who don't like loud noises better cover your ears.'
He said, `Now this is going to be dirty so we'd better have a boy do it.'
And he said, `Now this will help you boys who fix your own bicycles, so pay attention!' [Marriott 1991] and [Hall 1982]
The girls use to have difficulties in convincing their parents to buy them tinker toys and chemistry sets, which are routinely bought for their brothers [Casserly 1979, page 9].
A professor in the introductory part of a guest lecture on robotics to the graduate core AI class: `Pretty soon we'll have robots that are sophisticated enough to wander around in shopping malls and pick up girls.'
• Women are interrupted more than men on school.
• Faculty members make eye contact with male students more often than with female students.
• Faculty members are more likely to know and use the names of their male students than of female students although the number of male and female students are same in the class.
•Women are often asked fewer or easier questions than males.
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