Girls taking over Planet Technology


	Girls taking over Planet Technology

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2-25-2008 7:04 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4b86c2f6-dcd0-4a13-be8c-ae6e9cf9f174/995766D7-D1B6-4722-BC2F-4C17C5E08D5C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/02/24/girls-and-technology-whats-next/" href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/02/24/girls-and-technology-whats-next/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.downloadsquad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/02/24/girls-and-technology-whats-next/"><P> <A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/borabora/149511398/"><IMG width="180" vspace="16" hspace="4" height="255" border="0" align="right" alt="Girls and Tech" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/02/149511398_f9166f0026_m.jpg" /></A> A February 21 New York Times article (<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/fashion/21webgirls.html?_r=4">"Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain"</A>) states that teenage girls far outnumber teenage boys in the creation of web content such as blogs, web sites, and original graphics. Some of these teens have created viable businesses out of their online efforts, such as Chloe Spencer of <A href="http://www.neopetsfanatic.com/">The Ultimate Neopets Cheats Site</A> and Martina Butler of <A href="http://emogirltalkwp.podshow.com/">Emo Girl Talk</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/02/24/girls-and-technology-whats-next/"><P>In the working world of adults, however, the number of women in computer-related fields is still very small, with women holding only 27 percent of such jobs. In the next decade, will we see vast changes in the gender balance of the tech industry?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/995766D7-D1B6-4722-BC2F-4C17C5E08D5C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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