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Computer games are very attractive especially for children and teenagers. Playing them, they learn a lot of other useful things about computers. People who play them at work are those who just don't like working.

Most of this type of technical information is passed on through social conversation. Guys will talk about features of search engines and bookmark sharing websites like del.icio.us. Few women, in my experience, have gotten into this culture of discussing useful resources on the web. I think there's a couple of reasons why:
1. Culturally, it's not as cool for them to play around with technology, which leads to
2. they are hesitant to engage in technical conversations that might make them look inferior (which they are certainly not).
To counteract this, people, guys especially, need to be careful when being "helpful" and giving advice on internet resources and not belittle anyone, male or female, for not hearing about it before. And.. try to avoid being overly helpful.
Lastly, if you are in an office space, find useful articles and have them lying around the break room for people to pick up and read. I have seen this produce a great awareness of security related concepts.

I disagree that it is a female/male thing. Rather, I see it as age-related. The breaking point seems to currently be around 35-ish. Those younger do talk about and use the internet more, those older don't. They may want to, but either see using a computer as "work" or simply may not know the questions to ask.

Plus, there is an additional variable - we are talking about a very small percentage of people who even use or are interested in computers and/or the internet. Because we use it extensively, and perhaps our friends and coworkers do as well, it is easy to assume everyone is even interested in talking about it.

The vast, vast majority of people probably still see the limitations and problems of the internet as an insurmountable barrier.