Google invests in empowering women to code

Google promises to invest fifty million dollars, converted 36 million euros, in programs that help women to program. According to the company, too few women choose to study computer science.

For example, the $50 million fund will go to teachers teaching girls about programming, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote on Google’s official company blog. In addition, the company will partner with organizations such as the American Scouting to help women to program.

“Programming isn’t just a useful skill to work at a tech company,” Wojcicki writes; according to her, the skill also comes in handy in industries such as architecture, music and the medical world. Earlier, European Commissioner for ICT Affairs Neelie Kroes said that more women should work as app developers or elsewhere in the technology sector.

At Google itself, the minority is women, according to figures that the company recently released: seventy percent are men. Also, 91 percent of Google employees are white or Asian; other population groups are barely represented. The company itself believes that it is not yet diverse enough.