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I attended a Microsoft developer event in Tokyo today and was surprised that all of the keynote engineer speakers were female. Might have been a bit of a marke
by discordance 8y ago
I attended a Microsoft developer event in Tokyo today and was surprised that all of the keynote engineer speakers were female.
Might have been a bit of a marketing exercise, but nonetheless it’s a really good thing to see.
- staticelf 8y agoIf gender doesn't matter, why is it a good thing to see more of a specific one?
- rwmj 8y agoIf 100% of their engineers are women then yes they still have a problem. If it's a sign that they have a more even balance then it's a good thing because they're not wasting/ignoring 50% of the potential pool of people, and because diversity of backgrounds leads to better decision making and more innovation[1] which presumably as a tech company is a desirable outcome. [1] See references to papers in this blog posting: http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/10/diversity-trumps-ability.html http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli... and also https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation
- madmulita 8y agoIt might be a sign of exactly the opposite. Unless we know the method used to pick the speakers, it's all speculation.
- laurieg 8y agoInterestingly, I've was unable to attend a developer event in Japan last year due to my gender. I find all sorts of different types of sexism in Japan, but also lots of young hardworking people who have no time for it.
- logicallee 8y agoCan you elaborate? What happened exactly and how were you informed?