by Flatiron School
Flatiron School is launching our Women Take Tech initiative in partnership with female-founded beauty subscription pioneer Birchbox. Through Women Take Tech, we’re dedicating over $100,000 in scholarship funding to increasing opportunity for future female software engineers – in January alone!
The stats surrounding women in tech bear repeating:
Women hold only 25% of computing-related occupations.
That number has been declining since its 1991-high of 36%.
And even when women manage to get their foot in the door of the male-dominated tech industry, they often don’t stay there: 41% of women in tech end up leaving the industry.
That’s 25% higher than it is for men in similar roles, and significantly higher than it is for women in other non-STEM fields.
from Educational Technology http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/?p=22368
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