It also announced that it would use its history in server virtualization to enable customers to swap computing jobs among corporate computers and public clouds of computers, like Amazon.
Many reported a dislike of violent computer games and said they viewed computing jobs as lonely and antisocial.
Only 18percentt of undergraduate computer science degrees and 26percentt of computing jobs are held by women.
Girls who Code offers opportunities to learn computer science, to identify pathways to computing jobs, and to connect with role models and supporters.
Currently, only 2percentt of students taking science or math AP exams ever take the computer science A exam, even though computing jobs account for 60percentt of all science- and math-related jobs.
In 2015 there were 500,000 new computing jobs but fewer than 40,000 new computer science graduates to fill them, according to the report.
Recent data show that there are 500,000 open computing jobs in the United States and fewer than 40,000 new computer science graduates to fill them — only 7,000 of whom are women.
Indeed, according to Code.org, a nonprofit that seeks to expand computer science instruction in schools, there are more than 540,000 open computing jobs.
That is enough for many sensing and computing jobs, said Professor Otis.
In 1991 women held 37% of all computing jobs; today they hold only 26%.
In the US, only 26% of computing jobs are held by women.
