Consider the history: That Time When Women Stopped Coding
- What occured during the same time as the beginning of the decline of women in computer sciene?
- Computers were more accessible
- had games geared toward males
- Why does it matter that males had been playing on computers growing up?
- made people think computers were for men, since the games were “male oriented”
Review the data: Employee breakdown of key technology companies
- What three take-a-ways do you have looking at this data?
- need more women in tech
- mostly made up of white males
- above the small women population in tech, is the ethnic group of Asian workers
Ask the question: Why diversity matters to your tech company
- When are diversity efforts most successful?
- Diversity efforts are most successful when they’re driven by a commitment from company leaders
- Why do diverse companies perform better?
- DIFFRENT PEOPLE THINKING DIFFRENT WAYS
- Give an example of how a diverse company can serve a diverse user base or vise-versa.
- larger divirsity in a company can target a larger divirsity in users/customers
cite (https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2015/07/21/why-diversity-matters-your-tech-company/30419871/)