I have created a new thread for this tangent. I have generalised the topic a little bit to be about any social ideal, not just promoting women in tech.
Spawned from discussion in the thread about Technological Literacy (see here ), another thread of discussion popped up about various technology initiatives that exist to include targeted groups(women, people from poor countries, people who can’t access PCs, people of other minorities).
This also goes hand-in-hand with government initiatives to get young people into STEM generally. While this has the side effect of improving technological literacy by exposure(see previously linked thread), is thi…