Tech companies recruit female STEM majors at an awkward time


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  • Monday, 18 Sep 2017

Google has launched a massive expansion in the Bay Area unlike anything else the region has seen in decades, yet what has occurred to this point is being rivaled by what's to come. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

Devshi Mehrotra couldn’t speak highly enough of her three-month internship with Google’s artificial intelligence project, Google Brain, this summer. 

“Oh, it was so great,” says Mehrotra, a 19-year-old computer science major at the University of Chicago. “It was this program tailored to people with my background – women, people of colour – and it was an environment that really pushed me to work as hard as I possibly could.”  

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