Reminder: Words have power.

Tracey Welson-Rossman, founder of tech equity nonprofit TechGirlz, remembers with dismay the experience of one teen girl — a participant in one of the nonprofit’s coding classes — while attending a robotics club that was comprised of all young boys.

“One of the boys said to her while she was on the whiteboard: ‘Why are we listening to a girl?’ and took the marker out of her hand,” the founder recounted. “Mind you, this was in 2018, not 1960. … The other girl in the class? They made her the secretary of the club. What I ask is where was the adult in the room saying that behavior is unacceptable?”

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