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Solvable

The Tech Gender Gap is Solvable

Solvable

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, News

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Mariéme Jamme about teaching a million disadvantaged girls to code.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

When segregation was a law, one mysterious black club owner, Charlie Fitzgerald, had his own rules.

0:11.0

Segregation and the day integration at night.

0:14.2

It was like stepping on another world.

0:16.7

Was he a businessman? A criminal. A hero.

0:20.7

Charlie was an example of power.

0:24.1

They had to crush him.

0:26.3

Charlie's Place, from Atlas Obscura and visit Myrtle Beach.

0:30.3

Listen to Charlie's Place wherever you get your podcasts.

0:40.3

Bushkin. I'm Mave Higgins and this is Solvable.

0:48.3

Interviews with the world's most innovative thinkers

0:52.3

working to solve the world's biggest problems.

0:56.8

My solvable is to get 1 million women and girls to learn how to code by the year 2030.

1:02.8

The Code is about coding at the same time.

1:05.1

It's about giving women and girls power to go and change their lives.

1:09.5

In this episode, Jacob Weisberg is in conversation with technologist and activist Mariam

1:15.2

Jam.

1:15.9

So think of everything you've ever done on a computer, searching, sending, playing, paying,

1:22.0

and think of the role computers play in medicine, in science and transportation.

1:30.0

None of this could happen without software,

1:37.6

and software basically is code. Coders might be quiet, but they're powerful. Now, you probably know about the gender gaps in the field of health and education and in economic and political

1:42.9

opportunity, as well as security and just well-being.

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