content: In the long run, it is. Recent studies show that it's a lack of interest that keeps girls out of STEM careers, not a lack of opportunities. Affirmative action only leads to mandated lower-quality hires, which is bad for business and thus bad for the industry. Not that it's bad to have a girls' computer camp. But you should have a boys' camp across the lake with the same facilities and funding for the same thing, because egalitarianism.