Readings

The readings for this week focus on issues related to diversity and behavior in the workplace:

  1. The Secret History of Women in Coding

  2. Why Women Don’t Code

  3. Just Because You Always Hear It, Doesn’t Mean It’s True: Gender Difference Explanations For Disparities in Tech Are Not Supported by Science

  4. Why the STEM gender gap is overblown

  5. The Black Struggle for Technology Jobs (mirror: outline)

  6. The Code of Conduct

  7. An anonymous response to dangerous FOSS Codes of Conduct

  8. Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google

  9. Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

  10. Political tension at Google is only getting worse

Optional: Diversity

These readings provide some background on the lack of diversity in the technology industry:

Optional: Culture

These readings are about the possible toxic nature of tech culture:

Optional: Women

These readings are about the challenges for women in the tech industry:

Optional: Minorities

These readings are about the challenges for ethnic and racial minorities in the tech industry:

Optional: Uber

These readings are about some relatively recent events at Uber:

Optional: Education

These readings are about some educational approaches for improving diversity:

Optional: Codes of Conduct

These readings have to do with codes of conduct:

Optional: Linux

These readings are about the Linux community:

Optional: Political Correctness

These readings discuss the fears of political correctness in regards to these codes of conduct and the push for greater diversity:

Optional: Google

These readings explore the recent Google diversity memo:

Quiz

Once you have completed the readings, fill out the following quiz:

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