--- title: How I feel about Women Who Code shutting down | daily.dev description: Women Who Code, a long-standing organization focused on empowering women in tech careers, has announced its shutdown. The closure raises concerns about the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-feel-about-women-who-code-shutting-down-c0gyphlv6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I feel about Women Who Code shutting down | daily.dev og:description: Women Who Code, a long-standing organization focused on empowering women in tech careers, has announced its shutdown. The closure raises concerns about the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-feel-about-women-who-code-shutting-down-c0gyphlv6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/c0gypHlV6.png og:image:alt: How I feel about Women Who Code shutting down og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I feel about Women Who Code shutting down **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 3 min read · 11 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary Women Who Code, a long-standing organization focused on empowering women in tech careers, has announced its shutdown. The closure raises concerns about the lack of progress in the industry towards gender equity and inclusion. The author reflects on the importance of spaces for women and minorities to gather and commits to continuing support for WeCoded, an annual celebration of gender equity in software development on DEV. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@anastassiarad** · 11 upvotes > the idea of empowering women to start a coding career is because women are often told it's not for them before they even had a chance to try. because society has been that way for women to stay as a vessel for the family and leave alone their ideas of doing the "manly" job. depending what their background is, these stereotypes are engrained more or less in them. and having something like Women Who Code isn't saying that men are the reason there are less women in tech but the society and its outdated ideas are to be blamed. > shame. **@crevulus** · 6 upvotes > It's quite telling that men are rushing to this thread to tell us all what the "truth" is. > > How about we listen to the author (and other female commenters) and maybe trust that what they're saying is accurate? Maybe they know more than you about what it's like to be a woman in tech? **@cloudshock** · 4 upvotes > To be clear, WWC didn't shut down because it wasn't needed. It shut down because of lack of funding. [Per a BBC article](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0769446nyo) in 2022 the charity brought in $4m but burned just under $4.2m. > > It's an unfortunately truth about charities, non-profits and open source projects alike. Hopefully the folks that feel passionate about this cause will find a lower cost way to reorganize. --- Tags: [#diversity-and-inclusion](https://daily.dev/tags/diversity-and-inclusion) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-feel-about-women-who-code-shutting-down-c0gyphlv6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How I feel about Women Who Code shutting down","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-feel-about-women-who-code-shutting-down-c0gyphlv6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-feel-about-women-who-code-shutting-down-c0gyphlv6"},"datePublished":"2024-04-20T03:35:21.573Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:06:09.090Z","description":"Women Who Code, a long-standing organization focused on empowering women in tech careers, has announced its shutdown. 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