Can Obama get more women to code?

We’re more conscious than ever about the tech industry’s hyper-masculine culture. With the rise of the brogrammer, women are gradually accounting for a shrinking share of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs in the country. There are now fewer women as a proportion of that workforce than at any time since 1990.

That makes a new, minute-long address by President Obama directly to the nation’s students all the more uplifting. Speaking ahead of a week-long event to highlight computer-science education, Obama urged kids to try their hand at coding — and made a point of calling on female students.

By Brian Fung

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/09/can-obama-get-more-women-to-code/

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