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What India Can Teach Silicon Valley About Its Gender Problem
Credit: Tindles
The proportion of programmers in India who are women is at least 30 percent. In the United States it's 21 percent. And this despite the fact that by most indexes — economic opportunity, educational attainment, health — women in India have access to a narrower set of opportunities than women in the United States. So unless nature is working contrarily in South Asia, something about the culture of the Indian educational system and tech industry is more hospitable to women than the American one. If we can figure out what that difference is, we can begin to change things for the better in the U.S.
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