{"id":17992,"date":"2014-06-21T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T20:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=17992"},"modified":"2014-06-21T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T20:20:12","slug":"google-to-teach-high-school-girls-to-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/google-to-teach-high-school-girls-to-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to Teach High School Girls to Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google\u2019s diversity report\u00a0last month revealed just how white and male the company \u2014 and the tech industry as a whole \u2014 really is. But in a first step to correct the disparity, the company has launched\u00a0a new initiative\u00a0to help get school-age girls interested in coding. \u00a0Made with Code.<\/p>\n

By the numbers, women make up half of the economy\u2019s workforce but are seldom represented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Women only make up about 25 percent of STEM jobs\u00a0and have even lower representation in tech alone.<\/p>\n

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Google reported they employ only three women for every seven men, and just 17 percent of their tech workers are women. Yahoo introduced its own diversity program. \u00a0Both companies also reported low rates of women in leadership positions. Yahoo only had 15 percent women in tech supervisory roles, compared to 21 percent at Google, which has no female executives and only one woman on its senior leadership team.<\/p>\n

But the lack of women in the tech workforce goes beyond\u00a024\/7 jobs and pizza rinds. \u00a0Less than 20 percent of high school girls take the advanced placement (AP) computer science test, or go on to earn a college degree in the subject. While AP computer science courses aren\u2019t available at most schools, two states didn’t have a single female student take the test in 2013.<\/p>\n

Girls also tend to be steered away from STEM, and many develop negative views of the field early on. \u00a0While 80 percent of high school students are clueless as to what computer science majors learn, female students unfamiliar with the subject often associated it with words such as \u201cboring\u201d and \u201chard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Made With Code aims to close the gap by showing girls that there\u2019s more to coding than it seems. Girls will be able to design 3-D printed bracelets or create songs using Blockly coding technology, which lets users build programs with blocks of code rather than typing it in manually. The program spotlights women who are dancers, music producers, cinematographers and humanitarians and shows how they all use coding to do their jobs. Google is also sponsoring and partnering with similar initiatives nationwide such as Girls Who Code, Black Girls Code and Technovation.<\/p>\n

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