Diversity
Discover the state of diversity in the tech industry, including historical contributions of women in programming and the current challenges that underrepresented groups face. Learn how to recognize and address these issues, become an ally, or find supportive communities if you belong to a minority group. This lesson highlights the critical role diversity plays in shaping a better software career and industry.
Tech does the worst job at diversity
Regardless of your political persuasion, you should recognize that tech objectively does a worse job promoting diversity than any other well-paid white-collar industry. This isn’t mere perception; it is greatly statistically significant by any measure.
Women in computer science
See the graph given below:
How many Computer Science majors are women today?
We do worse than medicine, law, and the hard sciences! This effect worsens once you get into the industry, industry surveys of programmers regularly come in around 8-12% non-male. This means there is ~40% average attrition of non-male coders relative to male ones, which is indicative of problems in the ...