Well, like in other Tech fields, coding too is male-dominated but female representation and narrowing the gap when it comes to the number of girls and women looking at coding as a career path needs to happen.

Code Girls Uganda Program, a brainchild of Digital Literacy Initiative (DLI) will connect girls and women to information, role models and mentors who can freely share their wealth of knowledge with up and coming coders. 

Similar actions as detailed in Women in Cyber Security Uganda will be employed for this program.

Among other things, Digital Literacy Africa will;

• Organize boot camps for coding with the help of stakeholders in the government, the private sector, civil service and Non-governmental Organizations. 
• Connect women to coding classes and workshops so that they can horn their skills and increase their competitiveness in schools and the job-market
• Coding for school-going girls who are preferably under the age of 18 to plant the seed of coding in their young hearts so that, later on, coding is among the choices available to them for life
• Advocating for Gender-sensitive adverts for coding jobs and equal pay
• Helping girls build a tribe of like-minded supporters in the coding field to shield them from the challenges that arise from being a girl who codes
• Code Girls Uganda programme will support mothers who code and advocate for their rights for, during and after maternity-leave.

In conclusion, women like their male counterparts need to be able to compete in the ever-changing digital economy. Coding, the language of computers, is a sure way to make sure women are not left behind.