Articles
Introduction
In addition to very specific resources on language, hiring, and so on we have found many “overview” articles that span multiple categories. Here are some worth reading.
Diversity
- Programming Diversity
- Closing the gender gap in computer science: Harvard Gazette
- AlienatingAtmosphere
- DiversityImbalance
- Software Engineering Made a Woman Outta Me — Medium
- Janet Van Huysse Discusses Twitter’s Women in Engineering (WomEng) Group - YouTube
- Where women don’t belong: 2 strategies you and I both use to keep women out of science
- A Rant About Women - Clay Shirky - via Internet Archive - very interesting article about women not promoting their achievements
- Hiring and Retaining Women in Tech — Women In Tech — Medium
- How one college went from 10% female computer-science majors to 40% – Quartz
- CTO to Women in IT: You Are Not Weird
- About Feminism
- IT gender gap: Where are the female programmers? - TechRepublic
- How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
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Sep 16, 2014 By Katherine W. Phillips - Recommended by Nat Pryce & Steve Freeman at their Agile Cambridge 2014 keynote
- Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working
- In Brief
- Decades of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers show that socially diverse groups (that is, those with a diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation) are more innovative than homogeneous groups. * It seems obvious that a group of people with diverse individual expertise would be better than a homogeneous group at solving complex, nonroutine problems. It is less obvious that social diversity should work in the same way—yet the science shows that it does. * This is not only because people with different backgrounds bring new information. Simply interacting with individuals who are different forces group members to prepare better, to anticipate alternative viewpoints and to expect that reaching consensus will take effort.
- DiversityMediocrityIllusion
- For Women in Tech, Size Matters: Belinda Parmar OBE: TEDxUCL - YouTube - 3 tips to improve how your company appears?
- I’m so tired of it all - trishagee.github.io
- Bechdel Test
- Things My Male Tech Colleagues Have Actually Said to Me, Annotated
- Women in Tech
- Search Twitter - #ILookLikeAnEngineer
- Monica Rogati on Twitter: “The Bechdel test for tech conferences: 1) two women speaking 2) on the same panel 3) not about women in tech.”
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Advice
- Advice for Women Entering the Tech Industry by Kat Li: Model View Culture
- Being an Effective Ally to Women and Non-Binary People - Code as Craft - really good intro, with 10 ways to help. Quite long.
Good Examples
- David Haney on Twitter: “I’m still jazzed about our new diversity page at @StackOverflow - check it out!”
- Update 2020-05-22: The page in the tweet no longer exists. It’s available via the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20150920020050/http://stackexchange.com/diversity
Improving diversity
- Sarah Mei – The Power in Agile
- “Agile” is systemically sexist, racist, and ableist. Includes great quotes like “Unintentional exclusion becomes intentional when you don’t fix it”
- FlowCon - Programming Diversity: ashe dryden
- How To Create A More Diverse Tech Conference: Continuous Delivery
- The Myth of Magical Futures — Kate Losse
- Susan Colantuono: The career advice you probably didn’t get: Talk Video: TED.com
- Strategic, Business and Financial Acumen are required as a given
- These are required to get from middle to the top
- Analysing company documents to see if bias is present
- The One Word Men Never See In Their Performance Reviews
- Longtime Microsoft Veteran Jensen Harris Leaves for Text Analysis Startup: Vox
- NB reference to analysing company documents to detect bias
- Etsy’s Trying to Fix Tech’s Women Problem. Why Aren’t You? — Matter — Medium
- How Unconscious Bias Affects Everything You Do: Fast Company: Business + Innovation
- On Breaking out of Echo Chambers: beerops - via Internet Archive
- Bytemark is hiring, by anonymous interview:
- How We Talk About Diversity at Stack Overflow – Stack Overflow Blog – A destination for all things related to development at Stack Overflow
- Rapid Prototyping Diversity — Medium
- Rachel Thomas
- Meri Williams
- Sisterhood Is Not Enough: Why Workplace Equality Needs Men, Too
- Dev Team Diversity #Realtalk - Custom Web & Mobile Development Company: DevMynd - good practical article for small organisations
Online abuse
- Jez Humble on Twitter: “If you are a victim of online harassment, check out Crash Override: crashoverridenetwork.com”
History of Computing
Women in Computing
- Fascinating thread on the history of COBOL, showing the major contributions of Mary Hawes, Jean Sammet, Betty Holberton and Grace Hopper.
- The Secret History of Women in Coding: Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?