Prior to now, many of the approaches I'd seen targeted women specifically. The tactics listed in this article instead focus on trying to abstract out what could

Prior to now, many of the approaches I'd seen targeted women specifically. The tactics listed in this article instead focus on trying to abstract out what could make a good developer _in the future_. This is elegant to me because it approaches the problem in a bottom up way: "how can we more equitably target candidates so that we don't miss potentially great fits?", instead of top down: "how can we include more of these specific groups in our candidate pool?"