Readings

The readings for the third day of class consider the issue of diversity in engineering and technology fields, and the related concerns regarding codes of conduct.

Diversity

• Google finally discloses its diversity record, and it’s not good (Current Annual Report)

• Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field? (Archive)

• Column: Why the STEM gender gap is overblown

• Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies

Codes of Conduct

• The Code of Conduct

• The Woman Bringing Civility to Open Source Projects (Archive)

• An anonymous response to dangerous FOSS Codes of Conduct

Google Memo

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

• Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

• Why I Was Fired by Google (Archive)

• Political tension at Google is only getting worse

Quiz

Once you have performed the readings, you are to take the quiz below by 6:00 AM of the morning the reading is assigned (ie. it is due before class).