#GoodRead | Melinda Gates' initiative is about getting more women into tech
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"Melinda Gates' initiative is about getting more women into tech":
Melinda Gates has been supporting the global fight against malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS with her husband since 2000. And she'll continue to do so, but now she's also building her own office and dedicating resources to tackle gender inequality in the tech industry. In an interview with Backchannel, Gates said her new initiative's goal is to get more women working in technology and to get them to stay there. Gates is more than just the Microsoft founder's wife: she worked in Redmond for a decade after getting her undergrad and MBA in computer science from Duke.
"I care about computer science," she told Backchannel, lamenting the fact that there were more female computer science graduates back in the '80s.