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Title    GM Announces $250,000 Pledge to Education Nonprofit Girls Who Code
Date    Wednesday January 11 2017, @05:19PM
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from the I'm-not-moving-to-Detroit dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/01/11/000248

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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  1. "randomerr" - mailto:ervin.kosch@gmail.com
  2. "General Motors has announced" - http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/gm-girls-who-code-partnership
  3. "Girls Who Code" - https://girlswhocode.com/
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=17932

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