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That Time When Women Stopped Coding
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Employee breakdown of key technology companies
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Why diversity matters to your tech company
That Time When Women Stopped Coding
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What occurred during the same time as the beginning of the decline of women in computer science?
- personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers.
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Why does it matter that males had been playing on computers growing up?
- the narrative changed to computers being for exclusively boys and men. As the
years went by people were more likely to buy their boys computers rather than
their daughters.
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Employee breakdown of key technology companies
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What three take-a-ways do you have looking at this data?
- that black people are under-represented in tech
- percentage of women in major companies is much lower than other companies.
- nvidia is the only company where there are more minorities than white people.
Why diversity matters to your tech company
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When are diversity efforts most successful?
- diversity efforts are most succefful when they are driven my a commitment from company leaders.
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- diverse groups of people bring different backgrounds and persepectives which alow for fast and creative solutions.
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Give an example of how a diverse company can serve a diverse user base or vise-versa.
- if a company has a diverse emoloyees they will be able to build effectively to different groups that use their application. one example was how the team at youtube wanted to make sure people who used their site with their left hand weren’t having any trouble.