
she++: Good Girl Gone Geek
A group of Stanford students built she++ to answer a specific problem: why so few women choose computer science, and what happens to the ones who do. The film moves between campus classrooms and Silicon Valley offices, putting engineers, founders, and executives on camera to talk about the moment they decided to code, the professors who discouraged them, and the rooms where they were the only woman present. Interview subjects describe the pull toward fields seen as more "feminine" and the specific social cost of being labeled a geek, while others talk through what changed once they had a mentor or a project that made the work feel real rather than abstract. The documentary treats the shortage of women in tech as a pipeline problem with visible causes, not a mystery, and lets its subjects propose fixes: earlier exposure, visible role models, classrooms that don't quietly signal who belongs. It closes on the students' own pitch, aimed at younger sisters and daughters still deciding which classes to take.