Muses & Visionaries magazine No8

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Feature TECHIES UNITE

GIRLS, get with the Programming The numbers are grim. Few girls are enrolled in computer science classes in high school. By college, female students constitute less than 12 percent of graduating computer science majors. In response, women are attempting to crack the code in order to inspire more young girls and close the gender gap in the tech industry. By K. Annabelle Smith

Sheree Atcheson leads a lecture at a Women Who Code conference.

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