Salinas High School sophomore Stephanie Tena, age 16, is passionate about coding and AI, and she is working on a project that uses these skills to detect contamination in water sources. Women make up one-quarter of computer scientists. But in the field of artificial intelligence those numbers are likely much lower.

The move comes amid pressure from employees (and former employees like engineer Susan Fowler) and customers to improve workplace issues.

“They’re calling it a ‘diversity fund,’” tweeted Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital’s founder and managing partner. “I’m calling it an IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME fund” – a new seed fund for underrepresented founders.

Before RBG was named to the federal bench by Jimmy Carter in 1980, she argued important sex-discrimination cases in front of the Supreme Court. What linked these cases — she won five out of six — was the theory that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment should apply to women and could be used to remedy discrepancies in hiring, business practices and public policy.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters said, “I’m not urging, I’m not encouraging, I’m about to hit some people across the head with a hammer.” Regulatory proposals being considered include expanding the Community Reinvestment Act — which makes sure financial institutions help meet the needs of low-income communities they operate in — to include tech, improving requirements around companies’ EEO-1 diversity reporting and negotiating partnerships with tech companies and underserved school districts to improve education for black students.

As part of Reveal’s April episode, a frank conversation in January with Product Manager Rubi Sanchez, Software Engineer Jenn Wong, Entrepreneur/Investor Chia-Lin Simmons, Strategist Eun Joung Lee, Technical Product Manager Shanea King-Roberson and Girl Geek X’s own Angie Chang and Sukrutha Raman Bhadouria helped inform the story.

Forbes reports a new study shows that men are more likely than women to take on a professional side hustle. This gives men another financial advantage over women who are more likely to babysit or open a store on Etsy. Professional freelancing pays more than babysitting or pet-setting, and may lead to a passion project or future business. In fact, 59% of people work full-time while building their startup on the side.

Rachel Thomas, Fast.AI founder and deep learning expert, talks about Facebook and privacy: “it’s time to change the conversation”. She covers genocide in Myanmar, monetary fine in Germany, the power of tech lobbies, and data privacy as public good. Technology can be greatly beneficial for society, and it can also have a disastrous impact. The complex problems we are facing require creative and nuanced solutions.

The phenomenon has been known as “The Scully Effect”–named after Gillian Anderson’s character Dana Scully – and the Geena Davis Institute proved it’s real. Nearly two-thirds of the women surveyed who work in STEM said Scully served as a role model. Since Scully, there have been female characters in TV with STEM careers, including Dr. Rainbow Johnson (Tracee Ellis Ross) on Black-ish, Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) on Bones, Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) on The Big Bang Theory, and Darlene Alderson (Carly Chaikin) on Mr. Robot.