General Motors has announced a new partnership with education nonprofit Girls Who Code that's intended to encourage more young women to pursue STEM subjects. The auto manufacturer will offer up a $250,000 grant to help fund after-school STEM clubs in schools, universities, and community centers.
"Becoming an engineer paved the way for my career," said GM CEO Mary Barra in a statement posted to the company's website. "It's one of the reasons I am passionate about promoting STEM education to students everywhere. Partnering with Girls Who Code is one more step in GM's commitment to inspiring and growing diverse future leaders."
[...] GM and Girls Who Code are pursuing this collaboration is [sic] response to the decreasing proportion of women in jobs related to computing, even as the field continues to grow. In 1995, 37 percent of the computing workforce was comprised of women, but today that has shrunk to 24 percent.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @06:34PM
When it comes to male-dominated fields, most women workers are—in my experience—nearly incompetent; the few women who are competent are geniuses, and are just simply exceptional individuals, an exception that proves the rule.
What I've noticed is that it's not the case that including women improves a team; rather, it's the case that a good team can afford to include women.