Despite women constituting roughly 50% of the population, their representation in STEM fields remains disproportionately low, particularly in Latin America.
IBM has announced that it has awarded a $50,000 USD grant to Colombia-based PionerasDev, a nonprofit whose mission is to create and cultivate self-managed communities for women to learn and work on computer and web programming.
By 2021, Ruta N hopes that the companies that signed on will be investing at least 3% of their sales back into activities in science, technology, and innovation.