What is Application Software

Modern societies are increasingly based on digital technologies thus the gender gap is an important social problem for creating a fair, equal, and prosperous societies in the digital age. One of the first steps toward closing gender gap is about encouraging girls to receive education. Although there are positive developments in the closure of gender gap in the education field, the inadequate representation of women in ICT jobs has continued, and the figure of participation of women in this field have not been improving significantly. This chapter focuses on users' reactions for the activities on Girls Who Code, Girls Develop It, and Black Girls Code, Facebook pages as a support mechanism to improve their abilities and motivations on coding area to provide a better perception of possible selves. The results show that these activities attracted users and provided a chance to improve abilities and positive motivation for possible selves.