I’ve said many times that this work is very much needed and these teachers deserve all the flowers for helping to teach our babies in the place where they sit each and every day. But...
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Of course. Since you want to do this on Twitter, can you let me respond to all your tweets before responding? The twitter threads are hard to nav on a phone. And, yes, I know you understand.
In terms of what I said, one thing you didn't criticize is the (high-level) narrative of "not enough women in jobs ...wealthy white guy solution = teach girls to code", as if the only problem is the education pipeline. I'm guessing you know that's never been my narrative.
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That narrative is neither what I say nor believe. Our web page on our diversity outcomes (http://code.org/diversity ) makes this pretty clear. The recent article by reshma and ayah explains the mistakes in the narrative super well.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/reshmasaujani/tech-gender-gap-pipeline-myth?bftw=&utm_term=4ldqpfp#4ldqpfp …
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When I tell our story, I don't focus on my financial success, I focus on being an Iranian immigrant and the challenges with that. The pressure of editing left out a large part of what I say. I always talk about other organizations in our space as well.
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Well that was also a problematic focus on the segment. This is certainly how it was presented which is one of the primary reasons for the backlash.
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Agreed. and, re-reading your questions, you did criticize it. That's never our or my narrative. Our narrative (http://code.org/diversity ): "there are many issues to address to solve the entire problem of diversity in the tech workforce...Our focus is primarily on K-12 learning"
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