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We used to worry a lot about technology-challenged women. Researchers noted that little girls were driven away from the computers in their schools by more aggressive little boys. When girls became adolescents they lost interest in computer-based education. Girls tended to play fewer games on computers, and game-producing companies didn't design games for girls. When the Internet was developed, girls were not very visible. We worried that they would never go online. And when we looked at the rate of entry to computer and technology-based fields, we noted that the number of men in these programs far …