When Women Stopped Coding
- first programmers generation, most of them were women.
- when personal computers became pupolar, people started to join thewm.
- most activities can be done on computer in that generation like playing computer games and do some texting.
- due time it became cultural thing that computer is for boys.
- story basically about a girl who was good at problem solving in her class math and her teacher noticed that she has good problem solving skills.
- she took her with a class mate and helped them to join computer class program.
- she joined computer class and she found that alot of boys were a head of her in the class and she scored C and dropped the class.
- later she found a good mention and studied PH.D in computer science.
Diversity in Tech
- Facebook, Apple, eBay and Microsoft hired 1% more women.
- Google’s gender ratio stayed the same.
- Microsoft gained 3% non-white employees, Facebook 2%; while Google, Apple and eBay increased their non-white staff by 1%.
- LinkedIn lost 3% of its non-white employees.
Why diversity matters to your tech company
- Study after study in fields like organizational science, psychology and education indicate that diversity offers significant benefits for teams focused on creativity and innovation.
- bring to organizations more and different ways of seeing a problem and, thus, faster/better ways of solving it.
- research shows a strong correlation between diverse organizations and positive financial outcomes.