![]() ![]() The Close the Gap Scholarship Fundīloc’s Close the Gap Scholarship Fund is designed to make tuition for its part-time coding bootcamps more affordable to women. To help train more women for positions in tech, Bloc, a San Francisco-based online coding bootcamp, announced this week that it is setting aside $1 million to support scholarships for women. While the problems certainly reach beyond education, part of the problem is the talent pipeline: Women account for only 18.1% of students in bachelor’s computer science programs. As of 2014, only 15% of tech jobs were occupied by women at Facebook and Yahoo and at Twitter the split was even worse (only 10% of tech positions were occupied by women). When you eliminate non-tech positions (e.g., administrative, retail, and marketing roles), the disparity is even greater. Across the board from Google and Apple to Facebook and Yahoo, in the tech sector, women are consistently under represented as employees. As company after company has come forward with their numbers, the reason is obvious. Over the past three years, the Silicon Valley has been at the heart of multiple gender-based controversies. ![]()
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