GM is teaming up with Girls Who Code (GWC), the national no-profit seeking to help close the gender gap in STEM education and professional fields. The partnership will see GM provide a $250,000 grant to help grow GWC’s Clubs, an after-school program that provides free activities for students in community centers and academic institutions to help boost computing and other technical skills and encourage more women to enter the high-tech workforce in the U.S.
I was not aware of a gender problem in tech. But as i contemplate further i find myself not being able to name a female tech founder. I am probably ignorant but the gender gap seems to be getting worse thankfully there are companies and organizations working on this.
The Tech Gender Gap Is Getting Worse
Despite all the attention being paid to tech and diversity, the gender gap in computing is getting worse.That bit of unwelcome news—and a call to action to triple the number of women in computing by 2025--comes from Cracking the Gender Code, a new report from Accenture and Girls Who Code. “The attention to coding has popularized computer science among boys, but it hasn’t moved the needle with girls,” says Reshma Saujani, who founded Girls Who Code in 2012 to help close the tech gender gap.
Check out these successful female startup founders:
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If you wish your daughters or nieces to be the next female Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk maybe let them join:
Girls Who Code : website
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