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		telesilla on April 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the fi... The women-only network is tiny. It's true, we rally together and encourage more women to work with us, for fear that the field of STEM will continue to be unbalanced. Where the continued creation of technology is primarily designed by and for the global minority (non-working class men), we lose out on innovation and this affects everyone. Women make up 48 percent of the total work force, yet only 24 percent of STEM workers https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/women-stem-its-not-just-n... https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/migrated/report... 15% of engineering professionals are women https://ngcproject.org/statistics Women make up less than 10% overall in computer science and engineering https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/03/03/where-are-the-women...

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