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Tech Times
A study that came out recently reveals that women make 36 percent of the students who enrolled in private coding schools and boot camps. In traditional universities, ladies who are computer science majors amass to around 14 percent.
The massive appeal that coding boot camps and coding courses is due to a continuous and sustained effort to bring women and minorities into programming. Scholarships and learning programs tailored to the specific group's needs make these programs very popular.
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Crain's Chicago Business
If you think there aren't many female tech entrepreneurs and coders, there are far fewer African-Americans.
In the heart of Silicon Valley, giants such as Google and Facebook report about 1 percent of their tech staffs are African-American. Apple tops the list at 7 percent of its tech staff. By contrast, the same companies report 15 percent to 22 percent women in technology jobs. (Hispanics are about 3 percent.)
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Geek Wire
Latino business leaders in Seattle face a unique set of challenges, but also bring a refreshing portfolio of personality traits and creative skills to the local startup scene, according to three panelists at Oct. 28's Startup Grind event.
The panel discussion and networking event was part of Startup Week, a five-day celebration of entrepreneurship in Seattle, and hosted in the Galvanize collaborative space in Pioneer Square.
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Wired
Serena Williams writes: Back in 2008, when I was competing in the US Open, I would keep little "match books," where I'd write affirmations to myself and read them during matches. It worked pretty well. But before long I found an even better way to inspire myself: I started using affirmations as the passwords to my phone and my computer.
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CBC News
An hour after the children at Claremont Middle School in Oakland, California, boarded their school buses for home, 16 teens are seated around slightly too-small tables in slightly too-small chairs, passing around laptops that a few classmates brought from home.
It's the only way they can retrieve the code they've written to build their websites.
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Wired
The tech industry sees itself as a hard-charging business. So perhaps it's not surprising that, as it tries to address its dismal record of excluding women and minorities, Silicon Valley is taking a page from the NFL playbook. Facebook and Pinterest are among the firms that have announced they will test a policy called the Rooney Rule, long enforced by the National Football League.
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Information Week
Facebook's new diversity program called TechPrep shows yet again that Silicon Valley is unwilling to look at itself in the mirror and fix the real problem behind the lack of diversity in IT.
The program, like many others, is designed to "inspire" more participation of minority groups in computer science. What is different with Facebook's effort is that it is going after parents, too.
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The New York Times Magazine
How does a word become so muddled that it loses much of its meaning? How does it go from communicating something idealistic to something cynical and suspect? If that word is "diversity," the answer is: Through a combination of overuse, imprecision, inertia and self-serving intentions. Take the recent remarks by the venture capitalist John Doerr at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in September. Doerr, who with his firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has invested in Google, Facebook and Amazon, was on hand to discuss diversity in the overwhelmingly white and male Silicon Valley.
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CIO
In 2010 alone, the U.S. spent $3.4 billion in federal funds to address Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education talent shortages, and to help improve representation of women and people of color in these fields.
Despite that investment, the percentage of women practicing engineers remains at around 11 percent — the same for almost 30 years? Nadya Fouad, Ph.D., distinguished professor, educational psychology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, has focused her research on this question.
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The Associated Press via The Seattle Times
Free rent and groceries were selling points, but college freshman Aishwarya Mandyam was more excited about the chance to connect with like-minded women when she moved into the eight-bedroom house a Seattle software startup offered.
"There's inspiration. There's tech support," said the computer-science major who is interested in a career that combines medicine and technology.
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