Tech Talk Roundtable 88 | Girls Gone Wild…. for Coding

Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss their personal learnings and articles of the week.

Articles of the Week

1. How one college went from 10% female computer-science majors to 40% – Quartz qz.com
   Harvey Mudd tackled the challenge of involving women in tech courses … and won!
2. Encourage Women’s Involvement in Tech at an Early Age | Brian Honigman huffingtonpost.com
   How do we socialize girls so that tech-focused pursuits are not ignored?
3. The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech | MindShift kqed.org

   If your image of a computer programmer is a young man, there’s a good reason: It’s true. Recently, many big tech companies revealed how few of their female employees worked in programming and technical jobs. Google had some of the highest rates: 17 percent of its technical staff is female. It wasn’t always this way. Decades ago, it was women who pioneered computer programming — but too often, that’s a part of history that even the smartest people don’t know.

   

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