How We Solve the Tech Industry’s Gender Gap

[Commentary] It seems impossible to address diversity in the tech workforce without addressing it earlier, in the education pipeline of potential employees. Over the past decades, countless organizations in the computer science community have worked on this problem.

This work has recently hit an inflection point, with two major changes happening to computer science education in our public schools: 1) Computer science is expanding to more schools and 2) Computer science is taught younger -- in elementary and middle schools. It takes time, it takes cooperation, but by working together, change is possible.

Over the next three months, an even larger coalition of partners is aiming to more than double the reach of the Hour of Code campaign, to 100 million students. The faces of coding and computer science are increasingly female. The stereotype is breaking, and it’s time the world starts paying attention.

[Partovi is a co-founder of Code.org]