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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 GungnirSniper on Wednesday January 11 2017, @09:48PM
More women would go into STEM and specifically computer science and IT if we didn't have the contingent of socially-hopeless junior neckbeards starring at them slackjawed. And if women were a bit more resistant to peer pressure to do stereotypical things. Could it also be that now that the genders are more balanced in things that their mothers are not pushing them to break down a barrier further that is already broken down?
Women view technical problems differently and can often be the ones with the a-ha moment in a room full of guys thinking down another path.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @10:14PM
And if you can recommend how to do that without kneecapping the boys, we there might be a resolution to this.
The fact is that for whatever reason, women aren't as interested in these fields as other fields. Assuming that there should be parity is rather ridiculous as there's no reason to believe that women are as good as men in the same way that there are fields dominated by women where men might just not have the talent or interest to go into.