Hadi PartoviVerified account

While I can't speak for @EdTechPatty, I don't think she was "going after" him. She was stating a fact. People in leadership have choices with who they hire. @hadip has decided to keep his leadership all men. Next opening, hire a woman.

If you completely ignore all the women on our leadership team, esp @AliceSteinglass who manages most of the men at @codeorg, then indeed it would be fact to say the “senior leadership is mostly men.” However, when you choose to count the women, the opposite is true.

I prefer to count the women. The majority of leadership at @codeorg are women. The majority of our tech team. The majority of our facilitators. The majority of our teachers.

What’s more: thanks to these women, the overwhelming majority of the almost 40M students on @codeorg are young women and students of color. Nobody has achieved diversity at this scale in CS before.

But the credit for that work doesn’t belong to these women alone. There are also men at @codeorg. They are the minority, which is unusual for a tech company. They are proud allies for women in tech, and have devoted their careers to this work.

But by far the most important credit goes to the 1M teachers on @codeorg (mostly women, and also men) who are changing the face of computer science. I was proud to see them on @60Minutes. They are the *leaders* of this movement.

It saddens me to see many women online getting upset at SO much goodness created by an org run mostly by women, empowering a mostly-female teacher workforce, that is introducing tens of millions of girls to CS.