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If gender doesn't matter, why is it a good thing to see more of a specific one?

• rwmj 8y ago
  If 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 ago
    It might be a sign of exactly the opposite. Unless we know the method used to pick the speakers, it's all speculation.