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We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem

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theguardian – Logic magazine; By Miriam Posner 		Mail this story
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Get-girls-to-code initiatives aim to fix tech’s gender imbalance – but they may help reinforce it – Conventional wisdom says that the key to reducing gendered inequality in tech is giving women the skills they need to enter particular roles. But in practice, when more women enter a role, its value seems to go down more.

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teaching women to code does not create a new problem! mbaehrlxer 41 6,796 May 11, 2017 8:58 AM

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