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Reshma Saujani, Why We Need Girls Who Code

Published: June 17, 2016, 5:35 a.m.

When it comes to girls who code must it be "perfection or bust"? Only about a quarter of computer professionals are women--and that's actually down from 1990 when it was 36%. Girls Who Code is a non-profit organization whose mission is to change all that by closing the gender gap in computer science. And we'll need them--without girls, we will literally not have enough people to fill coding jobs in the US.