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There will be 1.4 million jobs by 2020

in the computing related fields,

less than 29% of them are
gonna be filled by Americans,

and less than 3% of that
29% are gonna be women.

I don't think software
engineering is a meritocracy.

Being excellent or being
good at your job isn't enough

if you're a woman in tech.

This sort of phenomenon of the programmer

has really interested me.

Programmer.

Programmer.

Programmer.

It's hard to encourage
more women to come into

an environment that will
sexually harass them

and not fund up.

As soon as a woman gets introduced,

it's like a log in the water.

When companies started putting

these full diversity
disclosure reports out there,

it became very obvious.

Wow, there really is a problem.

This is something that we
need to be trying to address.

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Women were the pioneer programmers,

they've been written out
of history unfortunately.

NARRATOR 1: Grace Hopper came up

with the concept of real
programming languages.

Coding's magic.

I like coding because instead
of us being consumers,

we could be like a producer.

And the same way that everyone should know

a little bit about law
and everyone should know

a little bit about economics,
you probably should know

a little bit about computer science.

Growing up, I was actually a system kid.

I didn't know that I
could learn how to code

like so quickly.

The reason that there's a
gap is actually related to

some really real structural factors.

Girls aren't encouraged to
pursue computer science.

They're overlooked because you know,

it's the boys that are good in science,

and it's boys that are taking
apart computers at age nine.

Most students have no
exposure to programming.

Computer science should be a requirement

in all public schools.

This is a Rosie the Riveter Moment

because the jobs are here

and we don't have the
workers to fill them.

For the digital revolution
to truly be great.

It can't just be for
certain set of people.

I'm hopeful because I think
that the tech industry

could move the fastest.

If we see the problem, we can debug it.

This is our country, our
cities, our communities,

our children, our code.

NARRATOR 2: Code

Debugging, the gender gap.