# [Women Coders in Tech? (Kick More Ass With Scholarships)](/content/blog/women-better-coders-men-kick-ass-scholarship-program/index.html)

In the 1940's **more than half of programmers were women**, yet, that proportion hovers around 25% today, with many studies finding that the actual percentage of women is closer to 10% - 20%.  When big tech companies revealed how few of their female employees worked in programming jobs in 2014, [Google had some of the highest rates](http://gizmodo.com/the-alarming-downsides-to-tech-industry-diversity-repor-1789797486) - 17% of technical roles were occupied by women.

The need to address diversity in tech becomes more astounding when considering recent findings that indicate **women are better coders than men**.  In "Women Considered Better Coders - But Only If They Hide Their Gender" the _Guardian_ cites a study in which software repository GitHub approved code written by women at a higher rate than code written by men, but **only if the gender was not disclosed**.  **_So why is the number of women coders so low?_**

Reasons may be complicated, but the message is clear: **we need to get the number of women coders up**.  To address this, **Byte provides scholarships to all women**.  Female applicants of our full and part-time bootcamps receive INR 50,000 **scholarships** while those considering shorter "data science mini courses" receive a discount of 15%.

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#### Written by [Emily](/content/blog/author/emily-hunt/index.html)