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Wade Davis Encourages Solidarity with Women at QConSF
Wade Davis spoke at QCon San Francisco 2019, at the Women in Tech & Allies Breakfast Co-Sponsored by Netflix. He encouraged allies to do something every day in the journey of creating equality for women in technology.
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Why and How Etsy Embraces Differences at the Workplace
Etsy has deployed various tactics to drive diversity and greater inclusion. They recently included diversity and inclusion in their guiding principles, integrated inclusion at each step of their employees' lifecycle, and developed strategies not just to hire diversity, but to foster a culture of inclusion. They empowered their employee resource groups to lead change based on feedback.
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Progressing with a Gender-Blind Attitude
Individual skills should determine success; we should not distinguish people by gender, said Oksana Afonina at Women in Tech Dublin. In her talk, she explained how she focuses on her own skills and performance, those being the main traits to benefit from career-wise. Change starts with you, she said; there are always opportunities to empower others around you and scale your impact.
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AnitaB.org Awards Given to ThoughtWorks, GEICO, and Accenture
AnitaB.org awarded Top Companies awards to Accenture, GEICO and ThoughtWorks at the Grace Hopper Conference in October. Dr. Parsons from ThoughtWorks shared why diversity is so important.
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Girl Scouts Introduce STEM-Focused Badges
The Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) recently announced a set of new badges available at different age-levels, focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) topics.
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2017 Tech Leavers Study Report Released
The Kapor Center for Social Impact has released the results of a study that looked at the reasons people leave tech roles. The four key takeaways from the study are: unfairness drives turnover, experiences differ dramatically across groups, unfairness costs billions each year, and diversity and inclusion initiatives can improve culture and reduce turnover, if they are done right.
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QConSF: Is Managing Men & Women Really That Different?
Mitch Shepard discussed why there are fewer women in leadership roles, why diversity is better for business, and what the IT community can do to encourage women in leadership.