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Digital Diversity Network
Event to be presented on Wednesday, November 18, by Digital Diversity Network & XO Group Inc., the premier consumer internet and media company whose brands include The Knot, The Nest and The Bump.
Tech and media industry thought leaders from the American Association of Advertising Agencies, NBCUniversal Media Labs, Pandora, The Phat Startup, Urban Airship, Wieden + Kennedy and XO Group will be featured in a conversation themed, "Tech Diversity: Bridging Culture & Innovation," during a networking reception to be held from 6 – 8:30 p.m. at the XO Group headquarters in lower Manhattan, New York. They will share how they are championing innovation; utilizing technology to change the rules of content, storytelling and engagement; and leveraging diverse talent to understand unmet needs in under-leveraged markets. Capacity is limited and RSVP is required.
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ZDNet
Fostering diversity across science and technology jobs demands commitment and investment from current industry leaders — and targeting younger hires is crucial. Following dismal reports about the lack of gender and ethnic diversity at many high-profile tech brands, several of California's Silicon Valley titans have attempted to repair the damage and even turn the tide for future generations.
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Entrepreneur
Contributor Peter Gasca writes: When I talk about potential professions with my daughter, the words engineering and technology are the first to come out of my mouth. Granted, she is only 4 and wants to be a gymnast, artist or firefighter — as of this week anyway. When it comes to my retirement, however, I am banking on her becoming a female entrepreneur and founding the next multibillion dollar tech company. Unfortunately, she and her female counterparts are facing challenges in the tech industry, namely a significant gender gap.
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EnterpriseTech
As technology reshapes industry, female engineers and computer scientists are reshaping their companies and the world. From leading advanced scale computing initiatives to heading digital startups and everything in between, women technologists are increasingly welcome and comfortable across the breadth of organizations describing themselves as technology-centric.
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Venture Beat
Too often, diversity discussions in business are framed as a zero-sum game: affirmative action versus meritocracy, minority versus majority or them versus us. There are some hopeful signs that the tech industry is starting to realize that this is not the case. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Amazon — among others — have all made a point of releasing their diversity numbers, at least insofar as diversity means "gender and ethnicity," and have done so for two years in a row now, so we can see how little things are improving. At least they recognize it's a problem.
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BuzzFeed
Leslie Tita's tone grows oddly anxious as he curls into the back of a Lyft and speeds away from Howard University. Tita is a successful entrepreneur who owns a co-working space for entrepreneurs from Africa. He's strikingly tall and sturdily built, with long fine dreadlocks and an infectious grin, and doesn't seem the type to be worried about anything. But ask him about the "pipeline problem" in tech — the notion that tech companies don't hire enough people of color because there is not enough available talent — and you'll see his brow furrow.
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Re/code
Twitter's diversity issue — like the growth problem that threatens to kill the company — won't change, not with its current homogeneous workforce and leadership. So says Leslie Miley, a manager-level engineer who spent three years at Twitter before leaving the company in October. Miley, who is black, took to Medium recently to describe a workplace whose failure at diversifying its workforce has crippled the company.
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The State
The computer science industry is dominated by men. About 75 percent of employees in computer and mathematical science jobs are male, according to a 2014 study by the National Science Foundation. More than half of women in technology jobs leave the industry halfway through their careers, according to a report from the National Center for Women and Information Technology. There is a "leaking pipeline of women in IT" that starts in K-12 education and continues through college and career, said Jason Thatcher, a professor and director of the Social Analytics Institute at Clemson University.
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The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model)
Inspired by the #ILookLikeAnEngineer social-media campaign that challenges gender stereotypes in the engineering profession, North Carolina surgery resident Heather Logghe, tired of patients and colleagues who assume she can't be a surgeon, recently mounted her own campaign, #ILookLikeASurgeon. It takes on the stereotype of surgery in particular and medicine in general as professions dominated by men. Not surprisingly, the campaign struck a nerve and went viral.
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