Watch the trailer for Code: Debugging the Gender Gap, a documentary film shown at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The movie explores the stark reality that by 2020, there will be 1.4 million jobs in “computing-related fields”—and of those 1.4 million jobs, less than 29 percent will be filled by Americans, and of those Americans, less than 3 percent will be women.
<iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/123004482″ width=”500″ height=”281″ frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/123004482″>CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap Theatrical Trailer</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user7053220″>Finish Line Features, LLC</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Director Robin Hauser Reynolds (above) was inspired to make the film by her own daughter, who was a computer science major in college—one of two women among 35 men in her year alone.
Early one morning in the spring of 2013, my daughter called home from college announcing she intended to drop her computer science major. “I’m really bad at it,” she says. “I’m the worst in the class; I don’t fit in.” Her confidence was shaken by being one of just two women in a class of 25, and by not having the resources to support her. After taking three computer science classes, she drops the CS major. Turns out she was earning a B.
Learn more about Code, where to find a screening in your area, and what you can do to help narrow the gender gap in tech industries by visiting the film’s website.
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