Engineering Culture By Infoq

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mitch Shepard founder of WiRL about her talk at QCon and the challenges around gender diversity in the tech workforce. Why listen to this podcast: - Gender diversity and women leaving tech roles is a real and serious problem - There are compelling reasons to have a more diverse workplace – both ethical and bottom line results - “It’s nobody’s fault, but it is everybody’s problem” - There are physiological differences between the male and female brains - Don’t assume anything about anyone because of who they are or any characteristic they may have – we are all different Notes and links can be found on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2jodKmn 4m:34s - “It’s nobody’s fault, but it is everybody’s problem” 4m:49s - There is strong, systematic bias which gives men an advantage which goes long and deep 5m:09s - Things driving the recognition of the issue at a personal level are often related to leaders