Class 13 Notes
That Time When Women Stopped Coding
When the decline of women in computer science started, personnal computers had just started hitting the market and were geared towards boys and men.
Males had gotten more experience with computers since parents were more likely to buy computers for boys than girls even when girls would show lots of interest in computers.
Employee breakdown of key technology companies
The three take-aways are:
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There are more men than women in most tech companies.
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There are a lot more white people than other ethnicities in the tech industry.
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Despite being one of the smallest populations in the US asian people have a large presence in the tech industry.
Why diversity matters to your tech company
Diversity efforts are most successful when the efforts are driven by the company leaders.
Diverse teams have more diverse approaches to problems.
The reason why diverse teams can serve a more diverse user base is that they have the cultural background to know what one group or more groups of people are looking for.