Technology has a gender problem, as everyone knows.
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Quiting top role in a tech firm to teaching girls how to code- Ghanaian programmer Linda Ansong shares her story
Stembees girls-to-code initiative aims at fixing tech’s gender imbalance
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The underrepresentation of women in technical fields has spawned legions of TED talks, panels, and women-friendly coding boot camps. I’ve participated in some of these get-women-to-code workshops myself, and I sometimes encourage my students to get involved. Recently, though, I’ve noticed something strange: the women who are so assiduously learning to code seem to be devaluing certain tech roles simply by occupyingthem.
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