Twitter Bets On Girls Who Code

In 1967, 25-year-old Damyanti Gupta immigrated to Detroit with one goal?to be an Engineer at Ford Motor Company. Only there was one problem: there were no female engineers at the company. When a hiring executive flatly told her that "we don't have any women on staff", she mustered her confidence and replied "if you don't hire me, then you won't have that benefit." A few weeks later, Damyanti was hired as Ford's first-ever female engineer. Gupta (pictured) and her story are just one of many that inspired Reshma Saujani to found Girls Who Code, a new, New York-based initiative designed to help teach girls how to code so that they can pursue careers in technology and engineering. And what's especially awesome about Saujani's organization is that it has the steadfast support of a number of companies, including Google, GE eBay and Twitter.

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