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GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code

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

randomerr writes:

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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:49PM (#452654)

    Reality disagrees with you. But then again, you've got your own special little reality, don't you?

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:51PM (#452655)

    Here's what their disenfranchisement looks like. "I got the job at the factory for $20/hr, but my boyfriend didn't like it, so I took a minimum wage job instead."

    At some point, women need to pull on the big girl pants and dump the boyfriend. Simple as that.

    It's a man's world, not because it should be, but because the female 51% of the planet's population seems to like it that way.