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 jmorris on Thursday January 12 2017, @05:23PM
If a white male is in a position everyone assumes he earned it, since he doesn't have PC privilege. The notable exception that demonstrates the point is when the guy is the son of the last boss, then he is always having to prove he deserves to be there... and often fails. In other words he suffers the same undermining of employee confidence that an Affirmative Action hire does.