Title IX was passed more than twenty years ago to insure equality for girls and women and to end sex discrimination in schools and the workplace. (Hanmer, 1996) It seems that there has always been a gender gap in the American schools so it is only natural that it would extend to the new information age where we find ourselves. Only twenty years ago, in 1980, there was almost no research on the psychology of healthy adolescent females. (Hanmer, 1996) The fact is, girls think and feel differently than boys do. Unfortunately, it is part of our society to set up boys against girls, but the research on sex discrimination in the schools only goes as far back as 1980. Gender differences are an old argument, but now we, as a society have to look at it with a new perspective and include technology. Computers now play a major roll in many people’s lives. Opponents of the digital divide gender gap issue propose that there is no issue and boys and girls are just plain different. However, girls need to at least be given the same chances that boys are afforded and then they can make their education and career choices when they have all of the facts. We have to take into account the fact that boy and girls approach situations differently, and this needs to be considered when investigating technology. The middle school years, especially seventh grade, have proven to be the most crucial for girls. It is a time when many girls lose their self-esteem and identity. They get lost in the lake of peer pressure and can’t come up for air.