The gender debate has been going on for years across all walks of life, but recently there seems to have been an increase in focus on gender disparity in the tech and science industries. Yahoo’s appointing of Marissa Mayer as CEO, Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In movement and the rise of groups like Black Girls Code and Girls Who Code to encourage and increase the numbers of female programmers and STEM majors have pushed the issue further into the limelight.

