When Americans tuned in to watch last Sunday’s segment of 60 Minutes, they learned that the vast gender gap in the tech industry is shrinking, thanks to “one group that may have a chance to finally crack the code,” as the correspondent put it.
The group heralded throughout the 12-minute piece as the one equipped to correct the long-standing gender disparity in computing was Code.org, a nonprofit organization that has introduced tens of millions of students nationwide to coding.
