[referring to Tripp, 17 May 99.b] Perhaps this may help shed some light on the issue here. It is not just about male/female, but rather, about abstract/concrete approaches to working with computers:
Turkle & Papert: Feminism and the "soft" approach to computers
Turkle, S., & Papert, S. (1991). Epistemological pluralism and the revaluation of the concrete. In I. Harel & S. Papert (Eds.). Constructionism. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
