When my parents came to the U.S. in 1973 as refugees from Uganda's brutal dictator Idi Amin, we were one of the only South Asian families on my block in the suburbs of Chicago. As I grew up, my father ...

Cross-posted from the Curriculum Matters blog. Google announced recently it was putting $50 million into an initiative aimed at closing the gender gap in computer coding. In addition, Google released ...

Experience programming robots can make young girls more interested in technology and more confident in their abilities in related subjects, a study published in the Journal of Experimental Child ...

PIEDMONT — Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer. She designed the first computer algorithm and explained how it would work on a proposed, but not yet invented, Analytical Engine. Hedy Lamarr ...

What’s not so clear, however, is how the coding revolution can be as inclusive as it needs to be. Currently, nine out of 10 public schools in the U.S. lack a computer science class (typing games and ...

Girls Who Code is launching a new publishing program to help prove that a coder doesn't have to be a "21-year-old white male from Palo Alto," says founder Reshma Saujani For Girls Who Code founder ...

Women’s contributions to technology projects are appreciated, as long as people don’t realize the contributions are from women. An astounding survey last year found that 92% of software developers are ...

1 Kode With Klossy hosted 50 camps in 25 cities this summer. The pair got together to discuss the tech gender gap—from the top down and the ground up. Kevin Systrom: Many people on this list have ...

Despite the introduction of the new U.K. computing curriculum and the rise in after-school coding clubs, most girls' perception of coding and engineering doesn't appear to have changed. This is ...

From discussions on gender bias in artificial intelligence, to Python’s founder commenting that the programming community has a serious diversity problem, improving gender diversity in coding is ...