More Turkish women consider writing code as career

"Your resume seems fine but we prefer a male programmer because I don't think that women are suitable for flexible schedules," one employer told Melek Elmas.      

Just one event among many that shattered her dream of becoming a code writer despite the fact that she had trained for precisely that line of work since 2003. Having studied coding in her high school years, she graduated from the Computer Technologies and Coding Department in 2009 at the Istanbul Trade University. She even took private courses on coding and database.      

To no effect.   

Elmas remains sour to have been judged on her gender rather than her skills.      

"I was pretty much annoyed by this stance. That's why I decided to change my career path despite the fact that I have trained as a coder and loved this job," says Elmas, 27, who now works on search engine optimization for websites.      

Elmas's experience captures challenges waiting or affecting female coders around the globe and also in Turkey.      

Made of words, numbers, brackets - incomprehensible to a layman - code directs programs to accomplish set tasks.      

Behind any shiny graphic interface, complex computer game, smartphone app, there is coding.      

The computer world, and specifically coding, has long been seen as male-dominated environment. Figures appear to support this.      

A 2013 survey indicated that 11.2 percent of software developers worldwide were women.      

Moreover, the U.S. research suggested that women faced double standards even though they turned out to generally be better at coding than men.      

The research on GitHub - one of the largest open-source software communities in the world - showed that 78.6...