More US women get tech jobs, but men still outpace them three-to-one

Angelini, who attended the Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando, says tech companies should strive to hire more women because it ensures a variety of voices solving problems with technology. — Orlando Sentinel/TNS

When Naomie Baptiste was a second-grader in Miami, her uncle, a retired Coca-Cola electrical engineer, played a mathematics game with her at the store.

If she wanted M&Ms, he made her earn the candy by figuring out the sales tax that would be added to the price of the package at the register. That calculation was one of the things that helped her build an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.