rachel: reshma, popular to code a little bit through the program? reshma: i have.nd i wear it as a badge of honor as an entrepreneur that i didn't need to be a coder to build this organization. and that's what i tell people all the time. that i had so much passion and so much love, and that came from a working-class family, and knowing that education and opportunity was everything. so part of learning to code was again, this desire as i got older to learn something new, to sit with my frustration. and now i can. my son and i get on scratch and sit there, and i am just proud watching him, and also learning alongside him as a parent. rachel: i am interested in something you said earlier. you said if companies can change the diversity and retention issues they are having, they need to be really aggressive about having bias training to help people dismantle biases that they have. how did you do that? if you controlled the diversity budget for a big but he, how would you do that? reshma: i would send literally everyone of my engineers to go through bias training, aggres

>> host: reshma saujani, what is that? >> guest: it is a movement to close the gender gap in computer science technology. when i started "girls who code" less than 80% of the workforce was female so at a time where 40% of america's breadwinners were women and at a time when we were needing innovation we were missing women at the table so we spent the past ten years building a pipeline and have taught over 300,000 girls to code, half of which are under the poverty line and black and latina and 10000 girls cross country and we are well underway to create the next generation of leaders and of healers and young girls who will change the world. >> host: why did you focus on the coding aspect of the tech industry? >> guest: you know, my parents came here of refugees and i've had a job since i was 12 years old. in 2010 i found myself running for congress and as part of that i would go to these science classrooms and see lines and lines of boys clamoring to be the next mark zuckerberg or steve jobs and i knew those jobs in compute

. >> host: and this week on "the communicators" we want to introduce you to reshma saujani, the founder and ceo of a group called girls who code. what exactly is that? >> guest: it's a movement to close a gender gap. when i started girls who code almost a decade ago less than 18% of the tech technology workforce was female. at the time where 40% america's -- at a time when we were leaning into innovation, we were missing women at the cebit see e table. we set the path to building the pipeline. we taught over 300,000 girls to code, half of which are on the public line and a black and latino and we were about 10,000 girls who code clubs across country while in which grading the next generation of leaders of healers, of young girls who will change the world. >> host: why did you focus on the coding aspect of the tech industry? >> guest: my parents came here as refugees and i've had a job since i was 12. in 2010 2010 i found myselg for congress and as part of that i was going to these computer science classes and i was the lines and lines and lines of boys clamoring to be the next steve job

. ♪ >> this week on "the communicators," we want to introduce you to reshma saujani, founder of a groupled girls who code. what is that? >> it is a group to fill the gender gap in science and technology. at a time when we are leaning into innovation, we were missing women from that seat in the table. we spent 10 years building that pipeline. we talked over 300,000 girls who code, half of who are under the poverty line and who are black and latino. we are well on our way to creating the next generation of leaders, healers, young girls who are going to change the world. >> why did you focus on the coding aspect of the tech industry? >> my parents were refugees. i had a job when i was 12 years old. in 2010, i found myself running for congress and was going to computer science classrooms and i would see lines and lines and lines of boys, clamoring for the jobs to mark zuckerberg and jobs in computer science came pretty well, so to me, it didn't make sense. i was like, where are the girls? and where are the girls like me? that is when i decided i wanted to build a movement, build a program t

. >> reshma saujani, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. a very good monday morning to you. call in now. yesterday morning, dr. fauci appeared on the sunday shows to praise vaccination rates but also expressed concern about vaccine hesitancy in the country. here he is on "meet the press." [video clip] >> half of republican men say they will not take the vaccine. you had the psa with all former presidents except one, former president trump. do you think he needs to be enlisted to get his voters to take the vaccine? dr. fauci: i hope he does because the numbers you gave are so disturbing, how such a large proportion of a certain group of people would not want to get vaccinated, merely because of political consideration -- it makes absolutely no sense. i've been saying that for so long. we have to dissociate political persuasion from what common sense, no brain or public health things. the history of vax knowledge he has rescued us from smallpox, polio, measles, from all other diseases, so what is the problem? tis is -- this is a vaccine that

one with reshma there is a local tribal rights activist whose organization has been supporting go in the bike and his village council as they tackle the problem of collecting evidence. they're able to produce detailed maps by overlapping satellite images and g.p.s. data. so far over 250 grams of our councils have been trained to better understand how to employ the forest rights act is going to be. a part of the part of me in the past people who are too scared to approach forest department officers to speak up in front of them like. when the forest passed in 2006 people here felt confident that they would be able to get some right so that we could use our land and build this help we are now able to assert those rights. if they got a. 27 year old. has learned how to use g.p.s. with the help of a g.p.s. tracker he can calculate exact flocks of land and produce an accurate map of the g.p.s. findings are then superimposed with satellite image data from 2005 and are used as evidence in the submission of. use of technology for verification of claims is a very controversial issue most of the

. >> host: reshma saujani, what is that? >> guest: it is a movement to close the gender gap in computer science technology. when i started "girls who code" less than 80% of the workforce was female so at a time where 40% of america's breadwinners were women and at a time when we were needing innovation we were missing women at the table so we spent the

that's when i decided i wanted to build a program to teach girls to code. >> reshma saujani tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. up next on c-span2 a house subcommittee

one with reshma there is a local tribal rights activist whose organization has been supporting go in the bike and his village council as they tackle the problem of collecting evidence. they're able to produce detailed maps by overlapping satellite images and g.p.s. data. so far over 250 grams of our councils have been trained to better understand how to employ the forest rights act is going to be. a part of the part of me in the past people who are too scared to approach forest department office or speak up in front of them. when the forest passed in 2006 people here felt confident that they would be able to get some right so that we could use our land and build this help we are now able to assert those rights. they've got a. 27 year old mark up behind us are has learned how to use g.p.s. with the help of a g.p.s. tracker he can calculate exact floats of land and produce an accurate map of the g.p.s. findings i've been superimposed with satellite image data from 2005 and are used as evidence in the submission of. use of technology for verification of claims is a very controversial is

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>> host: reshma saujani has been our guest on the communicators, founder and ceo and soon-to-be board chair of "girls who code", our guest report has been at rachel lerman lerman from san francisco who covers technology for "the washington post". >> you are watching c-span2 your unfiltered view of government. c-span2 was greeted by america's cable television companies and today we are brought to you by these television companies provide c-span2 to viewers as a public service. >> up next, remarks from fcc commissioner brendan carr on 5g wireless technology. 5g is the fifth generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks. this event was hosted by the american enterprise institute. >> good morning everyone and thank you for starting your week with us. i'm with the american enterprise institute and we are joined by fcc commissioner brendan carr. brendan carr is the senior republican on the federal can mitigation's commission and has been described axial's as the sec 5g crusader. the work in modernizing its infrastructure will accelerate the buildout of high-speed networks w

. >> reshma saujani tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. up next on c-span2 a house subcommittee hearing on recent cyber attacks including against microsoft and solar winds that it enabled infiltrate government computers. >> at this theory is a debate -- we must address a few housekeeping matters. members are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves when you're recognized to speak. if i notice you have not and needed yourself i will ask you if you would like the staff to unmute you. if you indicate approval by nodding, staff or unmute your microphone. to avoid inadvertent background noise that share our staff designated by the chair may use participant microphones when are not recognized to speak. i remind all members and witnesses that the five-minute clock still applies. if there is a technology issue during your time we will move to the next member until the issue is resolved and he will retain the balance of your time. you will notice a clock on your screen showing the remaining time. at one minute remaining a clock will turn yell

look at the numbers with a money and politics reporter ♪ and i to go tonight -- announcer: tonight, reshmay on what her company is doing to close the gender gap in technology. >> my parents came here as refugees and i had a job when i was 12 years old. in 2010i found myself running for congress. as part of that, i would go into computer science classrooms and i would see lines of boys clamoring to be the next steve jobs or mark zuckerberg. i know that those jobs in computer science pay well. almost $120,000. to me, sense. where are the girls? where are the girls like me who could get a shot at one of these jobs? that is when i decided i wanted to build a program to teach folks. it announcer: tonight at 8:00 on "the communicators." ♪ announcer: you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government. c-span was created by america's cable television companies in 1979. today, we are brought to you by these television companies who provide c-span to viewers as a because -- as a public service. announcer: listen to c-span's podcast "the weekly." -- on the one point 9 trillion dollar coronav