Reshma Saujani
Founder & CEO, Moms First. On 2 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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In 2012, she founded Girls Who Code to close the gender gap in technology, scaling the nonprofit into a global movement that has educated hundreds of thousands of girls in computer science. She later founded Moms First to champion paid family leave, affordable child care, and equal pay, and has authored bestselling books.
2shows
3appearances
31statements
15resolved
5supported
2contradicted
33%fully supported
1said about them ↓ Everything Reshma Saujani said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Saujani: Working mothers earn 58 cents for every dollar made by fathers
“We have a motherhood penalty, and what I mean by that is moms make 58 cents and every dollar made by fathers.”
Saujani: Childcare advocates must partner with the private sector, not await Washington
“There's people who say, ah, we don't want the private sector to do anything because we want a federal solution. And I say, you're, no, absolutely not, because these are millions of women that can have access to childcare while we're waiting for Washington to g…”
Reshma Saujani: Women will hold less than 20% of future technical jobs
“When you look at the trajectory of women, they're the majority of our breadwinners, they're the majority of our labor force, but, you know, less than 20% of them are going to be feeling the technical jobs in the future.”
Saujani: Girls Who Code raised seed capital from individual tech executives
“When I first started Girl Who Code, we couldn't get a foundation to support us, and our first seed money came from Rochelle Parham, who was a CMO at eBay, and Beth Comstock, a CMO of GE, and Dick Hensel at Twitter, and Jack Dorsey”
Saujani: Framing coding as changemaking inspires girls to enter tech
“So I thought, you know what, if I could connect coding to change making, I could inspire a generation of girls to go into technology.”
Saujani: Tech careers offer unprecedented upward mobility regardless of socioeconomic background
“This is a job where you can march up into the middle class. Maybe for the first time, we're kind of starting kids out at the same place. And whether you are a young girl living in a homeless shelter in Harlem, Or a girl going to the best private school in New …”
Saujani: Diverse cohorts learning new skills together build strong friendships
“I believed in this idea that if you actually bring together girls that were black, white, straight, gay, you know what I mean, rich, poor, and you put them in a classroom together, and you taught them a new skill set, that they would become best friends.”
Saujani: Soros and Ford foundations initially refused to fund Girls Who Code
“I went to the big foundations, Soros, Ford, they wouldn't write me a check.”
Saujani: The entrenched non-profit sector strongly resists newcomers and new ideas
“When you have a new idea, and you're coming into a busy, fractured space where there are lots of different nonprofits, but they've been doing it the same way for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, there's a real resistance to newcomers and new ideas.”
Saujani: Hosting student coding camps helps tech companies retain existing female employees
“You're now then enabling another 50, 60 employees to participate in this summer program and teach these girls. And it just helps you in this really powerful way. It helped you retain the women that you had already hired. Even for male technologists who may hav…”
Saujani: Female and minority computer science majors have a 75% completion rate
“In college, if I declare poli-sci as a major when I start my freshman year, there's a 99% chance that I am going to complete college majoring in political science. But if I declare computer science as a major, I'm a woman, a person of color, there's only a 75%…”
Saujani: Raised $100M and taught 600,000 students in 10 years
“In 10 years, I raised a hundred million dollars from the private sector to build Girls Who Code, and we taught over 600,000 students.”
Saujani: US is the only industrialized nation without paid leave
“United States is the only industrialized nation that doesn't have paid leave.”
Saujani: Coding education lifts entire families into the middle class
“And that we have seen entire families being able to be lift up into the middle class by being, by getting access to coding and technology and getting opportunities to work in these companies.”
Saujani: Coding inherently teaches students to normalize and accept failure
“Coding is about failing. Like, it is, I mean, I'm learning how to code. I've been learning how to code. It is so frustrating. You know, especially the type A woman who wants to get my code right all the time, and that is what I love about the work that we do i…”
Saujani: 80% of Girls Who Code students are minorities, median score 89%
“Half our girls are from free reduced lunch, 80% are minority, and what's so incredible is that, you know, the median school on the technical survey, which is the equivalent of basically a college CS one-on-one exam is an 89%”
Saujani: 74% of girls wanted impact, but 0.2% studied computer science
“74% of high school girls wanted to pick a career that was about changing the world. And back then, less than like .2% of girls were going into computer science.”
Saujani: Her community in Uganda was expelled for lacking political engagement
“My parents got expelled from their home because the community never participated in the political process, right? They never fought for their rights and their, and I saw very clearly what happens when you don't.”
Saujani: 74% of high school girls wanted world-changing careers
“74% of high school girls wanted to pick a career that was about changing the world.”
Saujani: Fewer than 0.2% of high school girls studied CS in 2012
“And back then, less than, like.2% of girls were going into computer science.”
Saujani: Girls Who Code reached over 10,000 clubs before the pandemic
“By the beginning of the pandemic, we had over 10,000 Girls Who Code clubs.”
Saujani: Over 130 companies actively partner with Girls Who Code
“I mean, now we have over a 130 companies that are part of Girls Who Code, that have either had a class, that have sponsored a club, that have mentored, that have written a check.”
Saujani: 86% of women become mothers by age 44
“86% of women by the time they're 44 will become mothers.”
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 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Founder & CEO, Moms First | 2 | 24 | 33% 4/12 | full record on Masters of Scale → |
| a16zLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Moms First | 1 | 7 | 33% 1/3 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |