Shecodes, a network of around 4,000 female programmers in Israel has grown so fast in its first year it hasn’t even had time to finish its own website yet. Its goal is that 50 percent of Israeli programmers will be female within a decade. It has just held its inaugural 3-day hackathon.
http://forward.com/articles/209934/can-women-make-up–of-israels-coders-by-/#ixzz3KfbTxAks