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'Girls Who Code' Tries To Build 'Sisterhood' For Techie Teens
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Bianca Bosker
Huffington Post
6/26/2012
Call it the summer of CSS.
Twenty teen girls from underserved communities in New York City will spend eight weeks this summer taking intensive technology courses, on topics from robotics to app development, as part of a new initiative called Girls Who Code that aims to increase the number of women in technical fields.
Efforts to close the gender gap in tech often focus on revamping schools' curricula to emphasize STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. But former New York City deputy public advocate Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, argues that schools are still falling short, graduating students who have little access to computers, lack basic technical skills, and see science and math as a pathway to a career in medicine and little else.
