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While you would think that the technology industry would be more fair and less prone than other industries to gender issues, the truth is that it is not.  A good illustration of this is the firing last month of a female developer after she confronted a group of men making sexist comments at a programming conference. In this case, the maxim “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished” was way over-applied.

Thankfully, the gender gap is being closed by the good works of fabulous organizations like Girls Who Code, founded by Reshma Saujani.  Their mission statement says it all: “Girls Who Code works to educate, inspire, and equip young women with the skills and resources to pursue academic and career opportunities in computing fields.”

Girls Who Code has just started taking applications for their 2013 Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program in San Francisco,  San Jose, Davis, Detroit and New York City.  I wish there had been programs like this when I was growing up.

Here is a great video on this amazing organization via Fast Company:

You can listen here to NPR’s The Takeaway‘s piece done on “Closing the Gender Gap in Tech” that highlights the Girls Who Code organization here: