Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, is sending women to Hacker School this summer.
Marc Hedlund, Etsy’s vice president of engineering, said that in his career he has hired hundreds of men but only dozens of women.
“Other managers I know have reported similar experiences,” Hedlund wrote in a blog post.
So Etsy is hosting the summer 2012 session of Hacker School at its New York City headquarters, and it’s offering 10 $5,000 grants to women who want to join but need financial assistance.
“Our goal is to bring 20 women to New York to participate, and we hope this will be the first of many steps to encourage more women into engineering at Etsy and across the industry,” Hedlund wrote.
