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Stack Overflow Didn’t Ask How Bad Its Gender Problem Is This Year
The coding hub’s 2022 survey found that 92 percent of its users were men. This time around it simply dropped the question.
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NHL, its workforce 84% white, sets baseline to up diversity
The NHL for the first time has done an internal demographic study of its staff and all 32 teams, and the results show that hockey has a lot of work to do to increase diversity at all levels. The report released Tuesday found that 83.6% of the NHL’s workforce is white and that men make up nearly 62% of the total, based on the 4,200 people who participated in a voluntary and anonymous survey (about 67% of all employees).
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Black, But Not White, Families Talked More About Race After The Murder of George Floyd
Conversations about race can be seriously beneficial to children. Research has highlighted multiple positive outcomes for young people of all backgrounds — enhanced ability to accept different viewpoints and perspectives, increased levels of empathy, a better understanding of their own identity, and less racial bias to name but a few. Yet some parents are still unwilling to take the time to have such conversations.
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Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity — and labor lawyers say it’s illegal
Discussing pay constitutes protected activity.
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New game studio Racoon Logic faces backlash for lack of diversity in staff photo
One of the most notorious images in games right now is a photo of 20 mostly white male staffers that was included as part of the announcement of a new Montreal game studio called Raccoon Logic.
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White population declines for first time in US history, new census expected to say
Not counting the historic undercount of Indigenous and Black Americans, experts predict that the 2020 census will show a decline in the white population for the first time in U.S. history.
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Rooting out racism in children's books
Ten years ago, I sat down with my then 8-year-old daughter to read a book before bedtime. The book was sort of a modern-day “boy who cried wolf” story, only it was about a little girl named Lucy who had a bad habit of telling lies.
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The technical interview practice gap, and how it keeps underrepresented groups out of software engineering
Access to technical interview practice matters more than raw technical ability, and without it, we won't fix representation in tech
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Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian”?
When a term signifies something that does not exist, we need to examine our use of it.
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Adding women to corporate boards improves decisions about medical product safety
After firms add more women to their board, dangerous medical products are recalled more quickly.
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Diversity isn't an HR task. It's about including everyone's voice.
Does your company have a culture department, where the goal is to plug into the diverse communities the brands serve? Twitter’s God-is Rivera thinks you should.
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An MIT researcher who analyzed facial recognition software found eliminating bias in AI is a matter of priorities
MIT's Joy Buolamwini found that facial recognition software is much more accurate when assessing light male faces, and that it's because of data sets.
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Good news for efforts to broaden diversity in tech
Or at least one happy stat! Many companies have made efforts to attract women and minorities to IT positions, at every rung of the career ladder. New research suggests that workplace diversity programs are beginning to pay off: 43 percent of respondents report that the number of women applying to IT positions has increased over the past three years.
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How to Find a Woman Scientist
A new database is fighting the poor visibility of women in STEM by offering female professionals as speakers, panelists, experts, course leaders and advocates for diversity and equity
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How to make your company more attractive to women in IT
What do women want at work? Women IT workers who like their jobs explain what their employers do differently.
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How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working. By Katherine W. Phillips.
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