MakeHers: Engaging Girls and Women in Technology through Making, Creating, and Inventing
This report published by Intel, responds to the need to attract more female innovators to the technology sector. The Maker Movement has the potential to engage more girls and women in creating technology. This report provides recommendations about how Making can inspire more women to be technology innovators.
Additional details
| Content type | Article or research |
|---|---|
| Format | Web page |
| Keywords | Engaging girls and women, Technology sector, Making, Intel, Strategies, Role models |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Girls in Tech |
| Organisation | Intel Corporation |
| Copyright | Intel Corporation |
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