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[upbeat music]
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There will be 1.4 million jobs by 2020
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in the computing related fields,
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less than 29% of them are
gonna be filled by Americans,
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and less than 3% of that
29% are gonna be women.
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I don't think software
engineering is a meritocracy.
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Being excellent or being
good at your job isn't enough
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if you're a woman in tech.
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This sort of phenomenon of the programmer
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has really interested me.
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Programmer.
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Programmer.
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Programmer.
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It's hard to encourage
more women to come into
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an environment that will
sexually harass them
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and not fund up.
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As soon as a woman gets introduced,
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it's like a log in the water.
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When companies started putting
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these full diversity
disclosure reports out there,
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it became very obvious.
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Wow, there really is a problem.
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This is something that we
need to be trying to address.
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[up beat music]
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Women were the pioneer programmers,
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they've been written out
of history unfortunately.
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NARRATOR 1: Grace Hopper came up
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with the concept of real
programming languages.
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Coding's magic.
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I like coding because instead
of us being consumers,
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we could be like a producer.
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And the same way that everyone should know
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a little bit about law
and everyone should know
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a little bit about economics,
you probably should know
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a little bit about computer science.
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Growing up, I was actually a system kid.
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I didn't know that I
could learn how to code
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like so quickly.
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The reason that there's a
gap is actually related to
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some really real structural factors.
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Girls aren't encouraged to
pursue computer science.
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They're overlooked because you know,
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it's the boys that are good in science,
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and it's boys that are taking
apart computers at age nine.
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Most students have no
exposure to programming.
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Computer science should be a requirement
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in all public schools.
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This is a Rosie the Riveter Moment
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because the jobs are here
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and we don't have the
workers to fill them.
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For the digital revolution
to truly be great.
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It can't just be for
certain set of people.
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I'm hopeful because I think
that the tech industry
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could move the fastest.
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If we see the problem, we can debug it.
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This is our country, our
cities, our communities,
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our children, our code.
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NARRATOR 2: Code
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Debugging, the gender gap.
