WS205 Lecture 10: Class 10
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Tracy chou asked companies to release the number of women they employed as computer/software engineers. Code for progress aims to get more people of colour/women in coding. Only 10% of us high schools offer cs as a high school course: need teachers of cs. Air bags, when first created, killed a lot of women because there were only male engineers on the team. Voi(cid:272)e re(cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374) te(cid:272)h also did(cid:374)(cid:859)t tra(cid:272)k wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) at first (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it was always tested o(cid:374) men. Grace hopper enabled computers to be used in business as you could program more complex programs: wrote programming languages for the navy. Goldiebox: won an ad spot on the super bowl. If you thi(cid:374)k you will (cid:271)e less good at so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g, you(cid:859)ll start to (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e less good at it. Closer in the 80s to gender equality in coding than now. Women are less likely to choose a stem program, regardless of their availability.
