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How We Could Close Tech's Gender Gap In a Decade
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We all know that the technology industry has a gender problem. But how do you move the needle from awareness to action?
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, and Girls Who Code, a nonprofit tech group, have an idea: take the fight to the states.
"​What's great about having . . . governors and state officials involved is that they set the educational agenda for their states," Sandberg says. And reaching young kids — as Girls Who Code has done on a smaller scale — is key to improving tech's gender problems long-term.
From The Washington Post
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