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Why Women Who Code Can Close the Wage Equality Gap

The issue of the wage gender gap is especially close to my heart. In 2012, I created the non-profit organization Girls Who Code specifically to close the gender gap in technology and engineering. Why? Because despite the fact that women make up the majority of the general workforce, we comprise only 25 percent of technical jobs. Because we’re missing the mark on tapping into a diverse talent force: statistics show that only 2.7 percent of venture-backed companies have a woman at the helm, and African-Americans and Latino/as make up only 5 percent of employees at top-tier tech companies; less than 2 percent of VCs are people of color. The New York Times yesterday released analysis showing that for every woman CEO there are four men named John.

Reshma Saujani is the Founder & CEO of Girls Who Code http://girlswhocode.com/ .

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/opinion-women-stem-can-close-wage-equality-gap/

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Montana Equal Pay for Equal Work Task Force http://www.equalpay.mt.gov/

Gov. Bullock announces Equal Pay Task Force on Women’s Equality Day http://aclumontana.org/bullock-announces-equal-pay-task-force-on-womens-equality-day/

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