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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:27PM
Lol, are you seriously blaming women for open plan offices?
Wow, you should get an award for stupidest comment of the day for this one.
In case it isn't obvious (it is, just not to you apparently), I'm blaming the crappy state of the industry and the work environment (including open-plan offices) for the reason many people don't want to go into it, and especially why women don't want to go into it.
Your "particularly shitty company" anecdote isn't exceptional: that's now the *norm* in this industry. These stories are not uncommon at all. It makes perfect sense to me that smart young women hear about this stuff and find out what jobs in this industry are like, and see firsthand what their future coworkers are like in class, and run the other direction, changing their majors to something else. If I had a daughter, I'd strongly discourage her from going into computing fields, and push her into medicine or law. I'm sure I'm not the only one.