Science doesn’t explain tech’s diversity problem — history does
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/16/16153740/tech-diversity-problem-science-history-explainer-inequality
- is a tired stance
- endless debate
- voluntary diversity training session
- manifesto
- condemnation from some quarters
- approval from others
- Damore has since been fired
- filed a labor complaint
- went too far
- a Wall Street Journal op-ed, writing
- at an economics conference
- a controversy
- rages
- this day
- National Center for Women and Information Technology
- only 20 percent of its technical employees
- Microsoft
- Apple
- 2014 report
- only 17 percent of startups
- only 6 percent of partners in venture capital firms
- 20 percent
- 37 percent
- half of all undergraduate degrees
- just STEM itself
- slightly higher grades in those subjects
- still an achievement gap
- outnumbered girls 13:1
- ratio has diminished to 2.8:1
- has changed
- projections
- Harvard Business Review research report
- more needed than ever
- good old boy culture
- unfairness
- women not being considered people
- $16 billion a year
- Kara Swisher describes
- Susan Fowler
- Marie Hicks
- Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- called the Colossus
- the Colossi were destroyed
- a team of women programmed
- World War II-era ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
- low paid, not prestigious
- Jean Jennings Bartik
- said the machine was a “son of a bitch” to program
- Hicks reports that
- sales, demonstration
- assistant roles
- Men began taking over the industry
- Nathan Ensmenger, a professor at Indiana University
- described the programmer
- Ensmenger writes
- pay in the tech industry rose
- pay dropped
- The New York Times
- write the authors of the study
- Rebecca Jordan-Young
- every few years
- Yonatan Zunger
- summer camp
- what we know
- various
- reports
- studies
- Women Who Choose Computer Science
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