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How Melinda Gates sed Computer Science to Help Solve This Major Issue in Tech
"Women did not create the barriers in tech and we cannot break them down all alone," says Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
While philanthropist Melinda Gates spends much of her time working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on ways to resolve and prevent global health crises, she has also brought attention to the lack of women and minorities in the industry where she started her professional career: technology.
"Innovation happens when we approach urgent challenges from every different point of view. Bringing women and underrepresented minorities into the field guarantees that we see the full range of solutions to the real problems that people face in the world," Gates said on Monday to kick off her partnership with Code.org's "Hour of Code" initiative, part of the annual Computer Science Education Week.
During her remarks, Gates called computer literacy an "essential skill" and said computer science has the power to change lives and change the world.
"The more we encourage different kinds of people to get interested in technology the better that future will be," Gates said. "One of the reasons I'm so optimistic about the future is tech can make the impossible possible, but only if we're all involved in the effort. That's what CS education is all about."
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