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Coding Across Borders

By Alma M. Rinasz   This blog post can also be found on Glassbreaker's blog . It's been re-posted here so that non-members can read the article. Made With Code.  Women Who Code. Girls Who Code. Girl Develop It. The list of organizations and initiatives to empower and help women and girls learn about coding is growing longer and longer. This is a good thing, no doubt about it. But it’s a short list when you take into consideration that there are still places in this world where women and girls have limited access to education, the Internet, and the languages that communicate messages of empowerment. Learning to code across borders has its own set of difficulties. Social norms, religion, economic limitations continue to negatively impact the lives of girls and women. The aforementioned initiatives come out of developed countries, where women have an unprecedented quality of life in comparison to women in other countries. In a sense, it is a top-down approach, ideas and cha...