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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: 5, Insightful) by archfeld on Wednesday January 11 2017, @11:55PM
Please, the fact that girls don't want to code is not an issue of sexism, but of preference, and no amount of codling/extolling is going to make them want to. Do you really believe that at the elementary school level there is or has been some sort of conspiracy to prevent girls from pursuing STEM related education ? The fact of the matter is men and women are very different creatures and seek very different goals in life. Men and women draw a feeling of fulfilment very differently and that is reflected in the choice of careers. I'm not saying that in the business world there aren't barriers to women all over the place and those need to be knocked down, but in lower education I don't buy it.
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