Technology is the least integrated fields for Women!

Technology is the least integrated fields for Women!
By: Raymond R. McCarthy and Joseph Berger
Journal of technology Education, vol.19No.2.Spring 2008
One of the exciting articles that I have read lately is about the role of women in technology. It focuses on solutions to make women have an effective role as a technology instructor. Of course he addresses women and educators. The purpose of the article is to shed the light on how to encourage female in general to join technology education not only as learner but to be an educator for technology. The study based on interviews with 10 female technology teachers. When I continue reading I asked myself why the author did not interview males to know how they learn technology and what strategies they follow, may, if he had taken the males opinions, he would have had more variable solutions for that issue.
He gave some reasons for lack of women in the field of technology, depending on the 10 women’s’ interview only. I find here he limited his study on women only. Of these reasons; the family has an influence in forming the women’s future. One of the reasons also is the cultural barriers that make female away from becoming technology education teacher If the sample women had been taken from a country that prohibit women to do that, I could have believed the writer or the 10 women’s opinion. What I see now, especially in the advanced countries women have the same rights and equally treated as men.
The remedies the author provided are many such as; provide the women with support especially the close people around them like the father, the brothers. Extend more activities that involve girls with boys for positive interaction. He also focuses in the remedies to create understanding of how women move beyond the cultural barriers.
However, I see the issue itself is useful and make us think of the serious steps that can be taken to put women equally with men in the field of technology.

Resources:-
Kandaswamy,D(2003).Talibanism in Technology.Data Quest,February 2003,from http://dqinda.cid.com/content/special//03022602

Rymond R.McCardy and Joseph Berger, Journal of technology education,vol19No.2,spring2008http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v19n2/pdf/mccarthy.pdf