{"id":905,"date":"2017-12-24T18:55:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T18:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=905"},"modified":"2018-07-24T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:25:21","slug":"davey-hosts-viewing-of-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2017\/12\/24\/davey-hosts-viewing-of-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Davey Hosts Viewing of CODE"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ketaki Tavan ’19<\/strong><\/h4>\n

On Wednesday, November 8, Namita Davey (VI) hosted a showing of the film CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap in Hauser Auditorium after school. The event was open to Upper School students and garnered over 15 attendees.<\/p>\n

The documentary, as explained on its website, \u201cexposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap. CODE raises the question: what would society gain from having more women and minorities code?\u201d<\/p>\n

Davey first viewed CODE at the Girls Who Code Summer Program, where she noted that the film was \u201cnot only on an important topic, but also really well done in that it highlighted the most important aspects of the issue of the gender gap in tech fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the summer program, Davey also had the opportunity to attend a question-and-answer session with the film\u2019s director, Robin Hauser Reynolds. During this session, Davey was most impacted by Reynolds\u2019 sharing that what inspired her to make CODE was the fact that her daughter did not have the option to learn computer science in school.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany schools don\u2019t have a computer science curriculum because there is a serious lack of computer science teachers,\u201d Davey said. Inspired by CODE\u2019s message and execution, Davey sought to bring it to Pingry.<\/p>\n

When asked what effect she hoped CODE would have on the Pingry community, Davey said, \u201cFor students, especially females, I hoped that it would make the subject and field of computer science less intimidating. It\u2019s often seen as a \u2018man\u2019s\u2019 field, and I think the movie does a really good job of disproving that.\u201d She added, \u201cI hope that showing the movie at school was a step in the direction of dispelling the myth that men are better than women at computer science, and that as a result, more girls will become interested in computer science at Pingry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackie Chang (VI) attended Davey\u2019s showing of CODE, commenting, \u201cThe movie really opened my eyes about the gender gap in the technology industry.\u201d She added that the movie prompted her to consider the gender gap that exists in the broader world as well. \u201cIt was inspiring to see both women and men talk about this issue,\u201d Chang said.<\/p>\n

When discussing computer science at Pingry, Davey noted, \u201cI am so fortunate to have a female computer science teacher and a class that is split rather evenly in terms of gender distribution.\u201d She then drew the connection that \u201cthere are a lot of people in other schools who don\u2019t have this same privilege.\u201d She added, \u201cThe movie does a good job of reminding people that the gender gap in tech fields is still a very real problem, popping the Pingry bubble that we sometimes live in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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