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Code: Debugging the Gender Gap

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 1308313 | KanopyPublisher: Java Films, 2015Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Summary: At a time when jobs in the tech sector are outpacing growth in all other sectors, where are all the women? Some of the most important pioneer coders were women but today, only 15% of software engineers in Silicon Valley are. This lack of diversity can have serious consequences - as was the case with airbags, designed by and modelled on men and often fatal to women, whose smaller size wasn’t taken into account..Selected for Tribeca, this film goes behind the glib statistics to find out why so few women work in computer sciences. Through interviews with successful women programmers at Pixar, Pinterest and Etsy, it looks at what can be done to encourage the next generation of women programmers.
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Originally produced by Java Films in 2015.

At a time when jobs in the tech sector are outpacing growth in all other sectors, where are all the women? Some of the most important pioneer coders were women but today, only 15% of software engineers in Silicon Valley are. This lack of diversity can have serious consequences - as was the case with airbags, designed by and modelled on men and often fatal to women, whose smaller size wasn’t taken into account..Selected for Tribeca, this film goes behind the glib statistics to find out why so few women work in computer sciences. Through interviews with successful women programmers at Pixar, Pinterest and Etsy, it looks at what can be done to encourage the next generation of women programmers.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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