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Correct. You can't just sit back and hope for better results without actively doing a lot to fix it. My current company (not speaking as an official representa
by tibbon 9y ago
Correct. You can't just sit back and hope for better results without actively doing a lot to fix it.
My current company (not speaking as an official representative of them of course) is actively working to hire women, non-binary people and poc, especially to the devteam. We aren't there yet at 50% non-men; but we're actively trying.
We're sponsoring conferences, having people speak and doing a lot of active outreach. We also have great benefits and work is pretty flexible and understanding of family needs.
- darawk 9y agoWhy? The problem is clearly not lack of hiring of female devs. It's lack of existence of female devs.
- tibbon 9y agoUse the "5 whys" method to dig into this a little more. Yes, one major problem is lack of women developers, but why is that the case? Keep asking questions and you'll see that there's some terribly broken and problematic answers to be found. Creating a significantly higher demand for women developers is one way to help mitigate those causes and create more opportunity.
- darawk 9y ago> Use the "5 whys" method to dig into this a little more. Yes, one major problem is lack of women developers, but why is that the case? Keep asking questions and you'll see that there's some terribly broken and problematic answers to be found. Is that actually true, though? And if you think it is, how do you know? Here's what I know: The percentage of women that take the AP computer science exam in high school is about the same as the percentage of female software engineers. This means that whatever is keeping women out is happening before this point in the funnel.