Girls & Tech: Efforts To Encourage Young Women Into Programming

ABC’s Lana Zak investigates the efforts being made to get more girls into technology fields.

ABC News
Mar 23, 2015

ABC’s Lana Zak investigates the efforts being made to get more girls into technology fields.

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