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Why Women Should Code??
When cofounder of Y­Combinator Paul Graham’s
interview to The Information was published, it
immediately hit the headlines with his statements
like “God knows what you would do to get 13 year
old girls interested in computers. I would have to
stop and think about that” and “We can’t make
these women look at the world through hacker
eyes and start Facebook because they haven’t
been hacking for the past 10 years”. However, it is
a fact that there are fewer women taking the
plunge into coding.
It’s not that women do not code, the issue is that
they do not come out in the open. Today there are
numerous websites for women coders ONLY. They
have taken up the initiative to encourage them to
don their hacking caps and be proud about it.
Initiatives like She++, Lesbians who Tech,
Pyladies, Girls who code have been giving a shout
out to women who love tech. Although nowhere is
it put up that women shouldn’t code, the
acceptability has been denied for a long time.
Good part is, tables have turned now. There are
events and hackathons happening across the
globe­ many of them specifically for girls.
Recently, we got to meet the organizers of the
upcoming Anita Borg Institute Grace Hopper
Celebration of women in computing (India) event. It
was encouraging as well as overwhelming to see
so many tech ladies gathered together to celebrate
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women technologists. ABI has been built around
the belief, as it quotes, “women are vital to building
technology that the world needs”.
All of these events, summits and communities aim
at extending a hand of kinship to women who love
tech. There are plenty of established women
technologists who serve as an inspiration. Anita
Borg is one of them who did a lot to bring in
women to be not just a part of this tech revolution
but be an active contributor. Anita Borg’s efforts
have been encouraging women technologists to
become leaders in their fields as well!
Inspite of so many Initiatives, we see very few
women becoming leaders and realizing their full
potential. It seems that their career growth gets
stalled before they reach the top. While we were
trying to figure out why, Chief Operating officer of
Facebook Sheryl Sandberg published her “Lean In”
– A book that deals with the reasons and causes
for this abrupt pause. She also talks about enough
solutions that can help women ultimately achieve
their potential. Sheryl is listed among the 50 most
powerful women in Business and also comes in the
list of 100 most influential people in the world. Her
TED talk had become phenomenal when she
professed that women, unintentionally, pull back.
Sheryl motivated women to “sit at the table”, take
up the challenge, chase and pursue their goals.
Lean In, blended with humour and knowledge,
makes a wonderful journey from what women
cannot do to what they can do.
An infographic from ABI showcases the
association of women with computers from 1840s.
For more than a century, women have been a part
of this tech revolution.

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What we need to do now is, spread the word. A
little more enthusiasm, some more motivation and
initiatives for women can help us increase the
number of technologists. We would conclude by
putting up an excerpt from “Why we need women
who code” published in elle.com where Adda
Birnir, Founder of Skillcrush.com speaks.
How she learned to code:
“I taught myself to code five years ago and found
the experience so empowering and amazing (and
good for my bottom line) that I created a startup
[Skillcrush) to help other professional women learn
the digital skills they need”.
On being a woman in the field:
“On one hand it’s amazing! What we lack for in
numbers we more than make up for in energy. The
communities of women in tech that I have come to
know are incredible. So supportive, so excited, so
wanting to give back. On the other hand, it can just
be plain alienating to be navigating a world and
industry where there are so few role models to look
up to. You don’t realize how much you value
having someone to look up to and model yourself
after until you don’t have such a person anymore.
That all said, there is a little part of me that loves
the challenge of being in such a male dominated
field. I think, sometimes, it makes me feel even
more like I belong, not because I feel especially
welcomed all the time, but because I am like,

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