8:00 eastern on c-span 2. c-span. where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. next, girls who code founder and ceo talks about the importance of teaching computer science to young women. she was one of the featured speakers this weekend at the national governors association summer meeting at rhode island. thank you.: thank you so much, governor to bedo for inviting us here today. you are such a role model for some many girls in our country. so thank you.

so, carrollton, ohio could be any town in america. in carrollton, there is no wi-fi in the homes. there's often no wi-fi at these schools. the county has been decimated by her when epidemic, but 40 girls twice a week meet in a local library to learn how to code. to get their shot at the middle class. automation has transformed everything about the way we live and work. jobs are not going to be done by machines and humans. they are going to be done by robots and computers. if we were honest, this has created a lot of pain for americans. a tremendousreated opportunity. there are 500,000 jobs that are open in computing and technology , and these are jobs that are great. they pay a great wage, 120

thousand dollars if you are a software programmer. the problem is too many americans do not have the skills to fill these jobs. only 40,000 americans graduated in computer science to fill 500,000 jobs. this is an opportunity for many of you injure states and your constituents. i believe that the solution is girl power. women over the past two decades, we have been climbing, for the majority in college, the majority and the labor force. county, into any town, parish, and you will see woman who are putting food on the table. the problem is the number of women in computing has been declining. in the 1980's, if you walked into any computer science

classroom is the -- in the country, it would be have poise, half girls. if we looked at steve jobs' macintosh team, the word be more women on that team then anyone today. it is a huge, huge loss. people often ask me, why? why are women disappearing? and the first thing is is culture. i know a lot of you sitting round the table have daughters. . have met some of them we know what happens around eighth grade when all of a sudden they loved math and science and they now hate it. it is because of the barbie doll that says i hate math, let's go shopping instead. it is because we can't walk into a store and by a t-shirt that says "i'm allergic to out to rep." -- "i'm allergic to

algebra." the richer we have of a programmer is -- the picture we have a programmer is a dude in a hoodie sitting in a basement. the girl says i don't just want not be him, i do not want to be friends with him. culture has a huge impact on what girls want to be as they grow up. i did a whole said talk on this. i spend a lot of time in the company of teenage girls. i dissect them like a science experiment. one of the things i realize. we are raising our girls to be perfect. we are raising our boys to be brave. at a very young age, we teach our girls to smile pretty, play it safe, get all a's. we teach a poised to crawl to the top of the monkey bars and jump off headfirst. by the time they are adults, they are risk takers. they say in silicon valley, you

cannot even get funding unless you have had to startups. my two and a half old -- year old son is here. he was crying for selfie with just entered oh yesterday. i often look at his swim class. it is half boys and cap girls. when the girls are swimming, the parents are saying, ok, honey, you do not have to take your feet wet. and the boys they are pushing them in the deep and because they are teaching them to be men, how to be fearless, how to be risk takers. and we are protecting our girls, we are causing them, making them afraid of critical feedback. coding is a huge part in teaching them how to be imperfect. non-coder decided to do something about it and i started an organization called girls who code and i taught 40,000 girls how to code in all of our 50 states through free

summer immersion programs and clubs. and i do this work, i will admit as a feminist with a capital f, but i do this work because i believe in the economic opportunity of women and i believe they will change the world and i see this every day. wase this in one girl who five years old when her daddy got diagnosed with cancer. and out rhythm to help detect whether a cancer is benign or malignant sushi could save her father's life. i see it into 11-year-olds from that kids who saw were dying of lead poisoning. i see it in jazzman whose mother works at burger king. she built -- i see it in jasm ine. to teach satapp

words. i hope all of you had an opportunity to go downstairs and cb's 30 girls from rhode island and massachusetts and new jersey -- see these 30 girls from rhode island and massachusetts and new jersey solving the problems of the world. they built an act for senior citizens because far too many of their aunts and uncles had been hacked. they built a website to make sure underemployed women had an opportunity to get jobs. we had a team from the northeast they built an application to negotiate traffic because far too many of them are late for school. future.rls are our eyes, i i look in your see the same look i see in courtney's fathers eyes. you do anything for your girls

and you would probably do anything for your constituents who are girls. and when it comes to computer science education, we have made progress. hutchinson, you have done tremendous work. we are so proud what we are doing. today, one in four students offers computer science. i am here on this stage to talk truth to power. we are failing our girls. failing ourare girls. you don't have to trust me. look at the data. than one out of five girls areomputer science classes is girls. that is not enough for me. it should not be enough for you. please track data. don't ever take your eyes off gender. we also have an opportunity together to make sure we get every single school a girls to

code club. we know that afterschool programs for girls will increase the likelihood that they will sign up for one of your computer science classes. computerow learning science in the daytime. we can do this. look, i am not a coder. i know most of you are not. you do not need to be technical to be a leader on this issue and i am living proof of that. this is a problem we can solve. and it is up to you. the future of our girls is in each and every one of your hands and i want to create the next generation of powerful female leaders and i know you do, too. i hope you will join me in this movement. thank you so much.

another speaker was fema administrator barack long. he talked -- brock long. this runs just under an hour. homelandir of the nga security and public safety committee i'm honored to share today's session. chair know, our committee , governor kate brown of our cannot be with us today but we are honored to have my good friend, evan or john dale edwards to fill in. governor, welcome. he is my neighbor. he is a good, great colleague despite a few aggravations in