The high-tech industry is largely a guy’s world made up of "brogrammers" and job ads that ask, “Want to bro down and crush code?” Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Or that less than 10% of venture-backed companies have women founders. An organization called Girls Who Code is trying to reboot the system starting from the beginning.
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Satirically or otherwise, the term "brogramming" presents a vision of high tech as a hard-partying, single-sex frat culture. Yes, I get the joke. It's funny because it's ironic. But it's also inane, puerile, and bluntly sexist. Read Post
On Tuesday, Twitter, General Electric, Google and eBay announced a new initiative called "Girls Who Code." By creating a mentoring and teaching program, they hope to increase the number of young women who become programmers and engi... Read Post
Link: “Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem"Want to bro down and crush code?" No. Read Post