Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide: * Assuming the original authors as well as research work recently published by other leading scholars; * documents that girls at a disadvantage characterized their ability to learn and benefit from information technology in our educational system; * Set computer anxiety problems in the rich context of social psychology theories, including stereotype threat, self-fulfilling prophecy, social comparison and attribution theory, and * Offering suggestions that parents, teachers, and school systems can apply to overcome the digital divide. This book is intended to appeal to students and researchers in social and behavioral science education, human factors, and computer science interested in gender differences in general, and in human-computer interaction, in particular. The purpose of the writer is to stimulate social scientists and educators to further research this topic to generate solutions to problems.