THANK YOU for writing this piece, because, and I’m sure you’ve heard this all day long today, I thought it was just me. That 60 Minutes piece did not progress the way I thought it would. When talk turned to school-age students and getting them interested in computer science, and since the focus was on females, I just knew the story was going to talk about Black Girls Code. Or your own Girls Who Code. I was more than a little surprised to see the logo for CODE pop up. As the story went on and then ended, I couldn’t believe the topics not covered. I didn’t think the story had done a very good job explaining the original prominence of women in the field, like the recent New York Times Magazine article, The Secret History of Women in Coding. Was there any mention of Margaret Hamilton or Katherine Johnson? As to the story’s reporting the present dominance of men in the field, I guess they depended solely on the visuals instead of actually saying aloud white men. But therefore, if the industry’s gender imbalance was glossed over, the industry’s racial imbalance was thus left unsaid. How do you do a story on the lack of women in tech and choose not to explain the problematic environment that greets female computer science graduates — ? How do you not mention James Damore’s Google manifesto? How do you not mention the Tech Diversity Files, especially the education and recruitment holes revealed by @Shaft in his Thoughts on Diversity Part 1 and Thoughts on Diversity Part 2 essays? How do you not speak to June Sugiyama, who has written about this very subject; her 2016 TechCrunch article, Women in tech: What’s the real problem? provided far more insight and resources. And finally, in a story about women in the tech industry, how do you not mention any of the organizations that cater to women, both professional and non-professional, this very minute, like Women Who Code, Black Tech Women, Moms Can Code, SistersMATR, People of Color in Tech, or any of their annual events, such as the 6th Annual Lesbians Who Tech Summit that occurred just this past weekend — ? This 60 Minutes story was lacking as well as somewhat misleading in not providing a fuller, more detailed story.