Girls Who Code

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There are good examples of companies doing things. I'm actually very hopeful that the private sector can actually move on these things. But i think we have to ask, i think we're to demand. Cova didn't slow us down. We've taught 450 thousand girls to code. The opportunity is to get companies to actually hire them.

“It’s not about fixing women. It’s about fixing the system,” says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code and Marshall Plan for Moms. As the author of the new book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work, Reshma calls out corporate feminism and society’s assumption that women have to solve the problems of workplace achievement on their own. She argues that childcare is an economic issue that should be subsidized by employers, and that the discourse around the “future of work” needs to move beyond employees’ return to the workplace. Reshma also takes Silicon Valley to task for not diversifying their tech force.

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