How This Woman Is Fighting for Gender Equality in Tech

There was once a time — the mid-1980s, to be precise — when women were earning close to 40% of the country's undergraduate degrees in computer science. That's not gender parity, but it seems tremendous compared to where that number sat in 2014, when only about 18% of such degrees went to women. That paltry figure underscores one of the tech industry's greatest challenges: Boosting the number of women who study, and later pursue careers in, technology.