Melinda Gates turns her focus to promoting women in tech

Melinda Gates is taking time from her philanthropic work to build out a personal team dedicated to helping increase the number of women in technology-related jobs. Gates, who co-chairs the world’s largest philanthropic foundation with her husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says the issue is close to her heart. She graduated from Duke University in 1987 with a degree in computer science (as well as an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in economics) and joined Microsoft shortly thereafter, where she worked for more than a decade.

"I care about computer science," Gates tells Backchannel in an interview published today. "When I was in school in the 1980s, women got about 37 percent of computer science degrees and law degrees then. Law...

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