ABSTRACT
The Girls Into Science and Technology (GIST) project (1979–84) was an action research programme based in ten schools in the Greater Manchester area. The twin aims of the project were: to explicate the reasons for girls dropping scientific and technical subjects as soon as they become optional in the fourth year of secondary school; and simultaneously to explore the feasibility and effectiveness of intervention strategies designed to reduce the drop-out and modify the sex stereotyping of subject choice.
