That Time When Women Stopped Coding
- What occured during the same time as the beginning of the decline of women in computer sciene?
- the number of women studying computer science was growing faster than the number of men. But in 1984, something changed. The percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even as the share of women in other technical and professional fields kept rising
- Why does it matter that males had been playing on computers growing up?
- because when she took her first intro class — and found that most of her male classmates were way ahead of her
Employee breakdown of key technology companies
- What three take-a-ways do you have looking at this data?
- start hired 1% more women and LinkedIn increased their female staff by 3%
- over the years the black males number increase and female number increase but a little.
- Asian staff accounted for the majority are increase.
Why diversity matters to your tech company
- When are diversity efforts most successful?
- when they’re driven by a commitment from company leaders
- Why do diverse companies perform better?
- Given that diverse teams are smarter and more creative than homogeneous ones.
- Give an example of how a diverse company can serve a diverse user base or vise-versa.
- When YouTube’s almost entirely right-handed developer team built the iOS app without considering how left-handed people would use it, for example, 5% to 10% of videos were uploaded upside down as a result. This factor may be especially relevant for leaders of consumer tech companies.