Where Are All The Women - 1105 Words

Where are All the Women in Tech? An article named â€Å"The Computer Girls† appeared in the April 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan, which encourages women to consider programming as their career choice and even claimed that â€Å"this is the age of the Computer Girls†. Ironically, those statements show that the 60s tech industry may have been more progressive than it is today. The high-tech industry is the place that world-changing innovation happens. But we are also going backward in this field while the male-dominated culture continues to remain, which is supposed to be all about moving forward. If the truth is really like the article explains, â€Å"Programming requires patience and the ability to handle detail. So women are ‘naturals’ at computer†¦show more content†¦Actually, today’s engineering profession takes gender diversity in college very seriously. In early 1970, Georgia Tech and Caltech both had zero female undergraduates, but â€Å"in 2011, Georgia Tech led the na tion in granting engineering bachelor’s degrees to women, and in Caltech, women comprised around 40 percent of undergraduate enrollment.† Amy Bix, who is the author of â€Å"Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women†, tries to from a historical perspective, provide evidence that higher education has already started to open their arms to women. It’s not only the higher education institutions that are promoting systematic support for female engineering students, such as learning-community programs and extracurricular support. Some industry leaders also started trying to find ways to inspire girls to notice the beauty of tech at a young age. Bill Gates and Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg back the nonprofit coding education site Code.org to encourage and teach more American children – especially girls – to learn Computer Science. Even Victoria Secret Supermodel Karlie Kloss has joined the growing list of encouraging young women to take up computer coding. By calling them to apply for â€Å"Kode with Karlie Scholarship,† she explained the reason specifically for the girls, about why she offers this precious opportunity, â€Å"I think it’s crucial that young women learn to code as early as possible to