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When Women Stopped Coding

• What occured during the same time as the beginning of the decline of women in computer sciene?

personal computers started showing up in homes in significant numbers.

• Why does it matter that males had been playing on computers growing up?

It doesn’t matter.

Employee breakdown of key technology companies

• What three take-a-ways do you have looking at this data?

1. That most workers in tech companies are male.
2. the number of female worker is a constant as doesn’t change through the last years.
3. although the percentage of asians are lower than the others they have a huge percentage of workers in the tech feild.

Why diversity matters to your tech company

• When are diversity efforts most successful?

when they’re driven by a commitment from company leaders.

• Why do diverse companies perform better?

diverse teams are smarter and more creative than homogeneous ones.

• Give an example of how a diverse company can serve a diverse user base or vise-versa.

When the employees of an organization better represent their users and desired users, they will build more effectively.