by admin | Sep 23, 2015 | press
A couple of years ago, Robin Hauser Reynolds, a filmmaker and photographer in the Bay Area, learned that her daughter, who had been taking computer-science classes, had decided that she wasn’t cut out to pursue computer science as a career. In one particular class, in...
by admin | Sep 22, 2015 | press
Code builds things: websites, games, this story you're reading. But what code hasn't built, as the tech industry proves again and again, is gender parity among the coders themselves. That's the central issue in CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, a documentary that...
by admin | Sep 22, 2015 | press
"Never send a boy to do a woman’s job." That was Angelina Jolie, playing computer whiz Kate "Acid Burn" Libby, in Hackers, the 1995 cult classic. But in the two decades since the film’s release, "hacking" has become entrenched in popular culture as a largely masculine...
by admin | Sep 21, 2015 | press
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - New York City programmer Bana Malik was passionate about computers and mathematics from an early age, a video games enthusiast and email user way before many of her male friends. But early in her studies at New York's Columbia...
by admin | Sep 21, 2015 | press
The gender gap in tech is real and doesn't seem to be getting much better. In 1985, 37 percent of computer science bachelor degrees went to women; by 2013, that number dropped to 18 percent. And despite the fact that computer science is a rapidly growing field, few...
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