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posted by on Wednesday January 11 2017, @05:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-moving-to-Detroit dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday January 11 2017, @06:38PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 11 2017, @06:38PM (#452619) Journal

    I've got another folksy saying for you.

    You can't resolve fundamental and profound disagreements with unsubstantiated thought-terminating-cliches.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @06:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @06:42PM (#452621)

    You can resolve any problem with a gun; that's where your ilk is leading the world.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Wednesday January 11 2017, @06:57PM

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 11 2017, @06:57PM (#452633) Journal

      Yes, please, comrade, seize that person who doesn't think about the details and nuances of their beliefs and bring them before the firing squad. No trial, they posted something dumb on the internet.

      Really, I think these principles are probably worth fighting, killing, and dying for(the recent nazification of the US has forced me to think on that) if it comes to that, I can't imagine your half-assed "but-but-but technically" bullshit means as much to you.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:39PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:39PM (#452679)

        you're the socialist, you dumb fuck

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:45PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:45PM (#452751)

          Yes, we are the socialist. We surround you. We are the majority. We have more guns. We know how to educate. You are in big trouble, you racist, sexist, Ford loving moron!

          • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday January 12 2017, @01:34AM

            by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 12 2017, @01:34AM (#452807) Journal

            Sadly, I'm not actually socialist.

            Compared to the American almost-literally-worshipping-the-market-as-divine center, I could come off that way, but I'm pretty sure most actual leftists don't want their ideology was watered down with humanist pragmatism.