In addition to empowering girls and women to get trained on technology in preparation for the jobs of the future, initiatives like this also help companies reach new levels of innovation with a more diverse laborforce and promote growth of the global economy by filling unmet need for ICT-skilled workers.
As Gary Hamel argues in his book, The Future of Management, the vast majority of enterprises still operate via management models designed for an unskilled laborforce manufacturing widgets.
We know that when a woman can plan the size of her family, she is healthier, more likely to finish her education, join the laborforce, become more economically productive and engage in politics, thus more effectively shaping the future of her family and her country.