By Lee Cowan, CBS NEWS
A Georgetown University study says 8 million jobs will be open in the math, science and technology fields by 2018. But the next generation of American workers will be unprepared, especially girls. CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan reports that one move to level the playing field is found at a school in Oregon. A class once dominated by boys, is now for girls only. The average high school woodshop is a landscape that is decidedly masculine. The ratio of boys to girls in one Oregon classroom near Portland is usually about 28 to 3. But a little later, the landscape shifts to a class where you won’t find a single boy in sight. “Just because we’re girls doesn’t mean that we can’t do the same thing, if not better than they do it, because we’re perfectionists more than they are,” said Milena Boscole, a junior. This is the NBA — or the No Boys Allowed class — at Sherwood High School near Portland, Oregon.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57428787/all-girl-classes-can-help-in-math-sciences/
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