How Computer Science Has Failed Girls, And How We Can Fix It ⇒

The cold hard truth is, right now girls aren’t choosing to go into programming. So we, as women who were once girls, are taking our own life experiences along with months of research from actual girls and trying to do something about it. Yes, not every single girl wears jewelry, but many do. It’s great that there are little girls out there who are into tech and don’t care about gender norms. But for every tomboy who is already tinkering with electronics, there are many more girls going to slumber parties, attending ballet class, dressing up like Elsa, and they deserve to have their lives enriched by technology just as much as anyone else. There’s nothing wrong with all of that stuff and there’s nothing wrong with being “girlie.” Why can’t tech be girlie too?

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