revolutionizing the face of technology ℠
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Revolutionizing the Face of Technology℠
www.ncwit.org
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Important Note: this is NOT a talk about men being unfair to women
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Women’s Participation in Computing Has Been Declining Since the Early 1990’s
5%
13% 25%
56%74%
Sources: NCWIT Scorecard; Athena Factor, Center for Work-Life Policy, 2008
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Women’s Lack of Participation Makes Technical Teams “Less Intelligent”
“There’s little correlation between a group’s
collective intelligence and the IQs of its individual
members. But if a group includes more women, its
collective intelligence rises.”
Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups, Science October 2010, Anita Williams Woolley, Christopher F. Chabris, Alex
Pentland, Nada Hashmi and Thomas W. Malone
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It’s Also a Huge (Unnecessary), U.S. Corporate Technical Brain Drain
Sources: Capturing Turnover Costs, Joins, 2000; TalentKeepers, 2010; Athena Factor, 2008
56% leave $150-250K
75% stay in workforce
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This Has Serious Consequences for the Success of Tech Industry
"We simply cannot afford to alienate large chunks of the workforce. It is a widely understood truth that the single biggest challenge…is attracting the right people. To literally handicap yourself by 50 percent is insanity.”
-- Dan Shapiro, Google
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Why Are Women Leaving Technology? Let’s Start With U.S. Society at Large
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Society Is Biased About Gender and Science
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Lucy is Biased and Most Likely, You Are Too
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It’s Not Our Fault – Our “Schemas” Make Us Think This Way
Schemas are structures that organize our knowledge and assumptions about something and
are used for interpreting and processing information.
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“Unconscious” Biases Are Particularly Salient in Organizations Dominated by a Single Group, Like Most Technology Teams
Society
Employees
Organizational Culture
Subtle Dynamics
InstitutionalBarriers
Schemas/Unconscious
Biases
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Subtle Dynamics: What Are They?
Ex 1: Stereotype ThreatFear of confirming a negative stereotype
Ex 2: Micro-inequitiesBeing singled out, ignored, or discounted based on race or gender
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Example: White male engineering students
score lower when told in advance that Asians
typically score higher on math tests
Source: Aronson, et al., 1999; Steele & Aronson, 1998
Stereotype Threat Research
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Stereotype Threat Lowers Performance and Reduces Confidence/Risk-taking of Technical Women Because They May:
Not speak up in meetings
Be reluctant to take leadership positions
Be overly harsh about their own work
Discount their performance
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Micro-Inequities Obscure Creativity, Lower Morale/Productivity and Increase Attrition Through:
Slights
Unacknowledged accomplishments
Isolation and lack of networks
Exclusion “Bro-gramming”
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Institutional Barriers: What Are They?
HiringSelecting people “like me”
Task AssignmentWomen in “low status” jobs
Performance Appraisal Men – effort, individual & technical skillWomen – luck, strength of team, collaboration, easy assignments
PromotionCriteria modeled implicitly on existing senior male leaders
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What Can YOU Do To Stop the Flight of Mid-Career Technical Women?
Personal engagement & sponsorship
Accountability metrics
Supervisor training
Inclusive performance appraisal processes
Inclusive team meetings & culture
Recognition/credit/encouragement
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I have three girls on my programming team. One of my girls Amanda who
I have taught for three years made me cry in my car on the way home
(where no one could see me). She solved a recursion problem that I tried
to do for about 4 hours and could not solve. Without me pushing for girls
on the team I would have just thought she was an “A” student. With a
little push she became my brilliant student. I should have pushed her last
year. And for the record it wasn’t an all out boo-hoo cry. It was like a
single tear that a man would do if there was something in his man eye.
In Closing ……..
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So Next Year …….. What Will Your Quote Be?
At one of my staff meetings, I asked my direct reports, all of whom are male, to identify our top female technical contributors. Although we had just a few women in technical leadership positions, one really stood out as having potential to advance ….. Active sponsorship …. Top technical assignments ….. Has now become our CTO ….. We leapt for joy!
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Questions?www.ncwit.org