Female leaders from the public and private sectors have joined forces to work on technology's gender problem. On Friday, three female governors are convening with Facebook (FB, +0.01%) COO Sheryl Sandberg, Deloitte LLP's consulting chief Janet Foutty, and Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani to discuss state-level computer science education policies benefitting girls. The confab—to be hosted at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.—is the first of its kind, and is meant to be a day-long "working session" among state leaders and their staff to share best practices and come up with new ways of increasing girls' interest in tech.

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