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60 minutes. Cracking the code / produced by Rome Hartman, Sara Kuzmarov.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in computer science--Recruiting.
- Women in computer science.
- Computer programming--Study and teaching--Social aspects.
- Computer programming.
- Women computer scientists--Training of.
- Women computer scientists.
- Girls--Education.
- Girls.
- Computer literacy--Sex differences.
- Computer literacy.
- Sexism in education.
- Genre:
- Television news programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (13 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Cracking the code
- Sixty minutes. Cracking the code
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- A report on the efforts to narrow the gender gap between men and women in computing jobs and the program that's teaching 10 million school girls the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), with a specific focus on computer coding. Includes interviews with: Bonnie Ross, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Studios, who is determined to recruit more women for her team; Hadi Partovi, CEO of the non-profit Code.org, who hopes to close the tech-skills gender gap; Alexis Dixon, teacher, Brooklyn Arbor Public School, who teaches computer science; and unnamed students at Marymount Girls School in New York.
- Participant:
- Reporter: Sharyn Alfonsi ; interviewees: Bonnie Ross, Hadi Partovi, Alexis Dixon.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed February 20, 2024).
- OCLC:
- 1425510845
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