Ed Surge – Emily Tate
“Rosen and about a dozen of her female colleagues in Congress, including Reps. Sharice Davids from Kansas and Rashida Tlaib from Michigan, attended the event on Capitol Hill Wednesday hosted by Girls Who Code to discuss policy solutions that could help close the gender gap in technology. As part of that, Girls Who Code founder and CEO Reshma Saujani announced that the organization has been working with Rosen’s team to draft what she called the “first-ever federal Girls Who Code legislation to encourage states to start reporting on their gender diversity data.” The nonprofit has successfully promoted and helped pass laws that track gender diversity in computing in two states so far this year—first in Washington, then in Colorado—but this was the first mention that it would be headed for the federal level. Girls Who Code did not provide a timeline on when the bill would be introduced.” (more)