Dr. Idit Harel Caperton, President and Founder of the World Wide Workshop, is passionate about getting more young girls and women excited about becoming leaders in STEM-related fields.This piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post and is reprinted here with permission. This is the second of two posts about integrating more women in the gaming industry: read the first post here. In this piece, she focuses on how to get girls and young women the support they need to dive into computer-related fields.
You may ask: Why is increasing girls participation in computing from a young age is so important? At the NCWIT Summit last month, we discussed three key reasons:
Improving technical innovation on a national level (by including the other 50%);
Reducing social inequalities (by ensuring that girls become able to pursue the 1.4 million well-paying computing-related jobs available by 2018);
Ensuring a competitive workforce (because failing to capitalize on girls’ and women’s talent threatens productivity, innovation and global competitiveness). (more…)
Dr. Idit Harel Caperton, President and Founder of the World Wide Workshop, is passionate about getting more young girls and women excited about becoming leaders in STEM-related fields.This piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post and is reprinted here with permission. This is the second of two posts about integrating more women in the gaming industry: read the first post here. In this piece, she focuses on how to get girls and young women the support they need to dive into computer-related fields.
You may ask: Why is increasing girls participation in computing from a young age is so important? At the NCWIT Summit last month, we discussed three key reasons: