Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
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Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
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Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
#2Wow. Congrats! This is huge.
Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
#3This looks like a great program that hits the right audience - people who know how to code, and will surely end up programming professionally when they're done. Unlike the many bootcamps popping up that make minority kids write toy apps and hope they'll take up computer science later. A good use of Google's money.
Also, that guy has a very strange last name.
Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
#4And since lady engineers usually get paid less, that money will go a long way!
Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
#5Nice to see a simple story of encouragement. My peer group is fortunately pretty diverse in terms of culture and country of origin, but it misses out on a realistic distribution of sex, which I think is important as well.
As a “white male programmer”, I’ve always been uncomfortable with an imbalanced group; now, being in a relationship with a female programmer, I’m exposed to a lot more of the actual iniquities.
We should consider this as a high-priority bug in our industry.
Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
#6And since lady engineers usually get paid less, that money will go a long way!
You are misunderstanding what the money is for.
Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
#7As a chick thinking about a career change towards programming, I find this very interesting...
Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
#8This looks like a great program that hits the right audience - people who know how to code, and will surely end up programming professionally when they're done. Unlike the many bootcamps popping up that make minority kids write toy apps and hope they'll take up computer science later. A good use of Google's money. Also, that guy has a very strange last name.
those bootcamps at least focused on real, contemporary, problem. by focusing on socio economic classifications... though it ended up being the regular anything-is-good-for-the-poor crap of content.
this is just cheap advertisement for the sake of holier than thou.
if anything it creates the "women need handicap" mentality where it didn't existed before.
Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
#9Google also give significantly more (+$2000) to female winners in Google Cloud Developer Challange 2013. https://www.google.com/events/gcdc2013/about.html
Re: Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
#10Somehow I know some background to this. Google tried to get secondary school females to go to college for computer science or any other hard science. But they failed hard. No one was interested, they were not getting a lot of traction. One example was a $10,000 scholarship for which they received zero applications. Another was of hosting Google chats with few participants.
Someone told them to give some groups projects and a deadline for a prize, expensive software to create more stuff. They skipped the first step I guess ..