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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: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:17PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:17PM (#452704) Journal

    Don't mix your IN and FOR statements in your subject.

    Clearly she's not in a tech area, based on her being someplace where call center work only pays $10/hr. Even 30 miles from Boston that pays $14+/hr for most semi-trained work. So she may have to move to get a start in her career. Is she keeping up with the field she's in? Does she contribute to Open Source? Does she mentor students at any level? Or anything else to stay current?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @06:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @06:42PM (#453007)

    Her stem is math. Have multiple company's within 1hr that can use that degree. insurance Aerospace manufacturing All no go. Call center is here because 3 colleges with in 30 minutes.