One weekday morning in 2007, Bethanye Blount came into work early to interview a job applicant. A veteran software engineer then in her 30s, Blount held a senior position at the company that runs Second Life, the online virtual world. Good-natured and self-confident, she typically wore the kind of outfit—jeans, hoodie, sneakers—that signals coding gravitas.

CAMDEN - Learning to write code is hard. It takes specialized, expensive training. Most of the people who do it are young men who started learning about technology at an early age, and it takes countless hours holed up in front of a glowing screen to get anywhere in the tech industry. Wrong, wrong, wrong and

It’s often said that women are under-represented in high-tech careers because they’re not studying computer science in school. And that’s true: In 2008, only 18% of computer science grads were women—down from 37% in 1985. More and more, women simply aren’t choosing computer science. And this is leading to the issue that I addressed in

Author: Meerah Rajavel