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Reshma Saujani is passing on the guidance she received while helping girls break into a male-dominated field.
Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of the nonprofit, Girls Who Code, says she spends 25 percent of her time mentoring.
While many CEOs might think that’s excessive, for Saujani, it makes sense. The organization she founded promotes the importance of mentoring relationships in order to narrow the gender gap in technology. And that’s no small task, given the size of the discrepancy— just 18 percent of today’s computer science graduates are women.
Girls Who Code connects middle and high-school girls with employees at some of the most prominent tech companies in the United States. Those mentoring relationships are what have made Girls over 10,000 alumnae, many of whom are majoring in computer science at top universities across the country.
