3/22 Post

Hello again!! Just got back from my spring break it was very fun and relaxing. Over the break, we had to watch a movie called Code: Debugging The Gender Gap. Honestly, I loved the movie, I think it really spoke out to one of the many gender inequality workforces’ problems we have in this society. The movie started with a percentage about how many women in the future are going to be working as computer programmers and that was only 3% out of the 29% increase. Most computer programmers will be from outside of the US. Would that percentage increase if there would be more girls as programmers since the beginning? In the movie, they showed a perfect example of why there is a need of more women programmers. In the beginning of vehicle air bags being implemented into cars, many women and children were being killed rather than saved when getting into an accident. What was the main cause to this problem? The fact that there were only white men on the team making these airbags. They only thought of their body size, shape, and weight. When the airbags would deploy it would basically only save the men. If there were women on that team, there would have been a lot less deaths because their size, shape, and weight would have been incorporated into the making of the air bags. The need for better representation of both genders is crucial, but also there is a need for diverse ethnicities to be on the team as well. Our future is computer programming and our future will still need both men and women to come up with deciding factors for important problems needed to be resolved. Here's a link for the trailer.

Photo from: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/godaddy-ceo-helps-produce-code-a-documentary-about-the-gender-gap/