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gender roles in phishing e-mails

March 27th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

gender roles in phishing e-mails

I found this spam in my Inbox.  Since starting to co-present the Building Healthy Relationships workshops and listening to Chiara’s stories about this I ‘ve become more conscious about the gender messages that mediate our day-to-day lives.
From the e-mail:
Hello.
My name is Tessy, It is my pleasure writing you this mail as I saw your mail, [...]


Single gender classrooms

February 9th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Single gender classrooms

This article came across my feed reader.  From the article: “The practice of separating girls from boys in the classroom was the norm decades ago. Now, it seems to be something of a new trend.”
A few thoughts … I read a book on gender and computing that said that while girls do better in single [...]