Computer science is the new frontier for gender equality, but I have to say that I'd much prefer to see advocates less gender focused and more "mindset" focused, in that the power of technology lies more in it's ability to transform how we think and reconstruct the boxes we place ourselves, male or female. Technology challenges outdated, fixed ways of  how we were raised to think, even just 10 years ago! And it disrupts, in the best possible way, ideas of what we are all capable of doing. To imagine things that don't even yet exist, and already to trust it's the right thing to try and that we'll be good at it given time to consider it. And check out the cool animation they use to show boxes and disintegration in that link's public service announcement!

I'm reading Carol Dweck's "Mindset", which takes learning and internal vs external reward locus to a new level, now staged within technology where super immediacy places "growth" thinking at risk ("there's an app for that"), but at the same time the perfect growth thinking vehicle if you can figure out how to enter the stream without drowning in "yes/no. good/bad" dead-ends (think, MOOCs, tech start-ups and social good).  One of the bigger lessons for me about the "Mindset" message is how to better understand "non-participants" when you try to teach things like animation programming. Every time I teach, there is at least 1 in a group that won't participate, usually a very capable individual. Helping these kids put those "I know what I know" boxes aside and build a more flexible, though at first, less sturdy looking one, and trust it is the first step ...