Diversity
Let's discuss the diversity problems in the CS industry and how we can tackle them.
Tech does the worst job at diversity
Regardless of your political persuasion, you should recognize that tech objectively does a worse job promoting diversity than any other well-paid white-collar industry. This isn’t mere perception; it is greatly statistically significant by any measure.
Women in computer science
See the graph given below:
From the graph given above, answer the following question.
How many Computer Science majors are women today?
We do worse than medicine, law, and the hard sciences! This effect worsens once you get into the industry, industry surveys of programmers regularly come in around 8-12% non-male. This means there is ~40% average attrition of non-male coders relative to male ones, which is indicative of ...