Woke Hiring Won't Save Us: An Actionable Approach to Diversity Hiring and Retention
summary
Diversity hiring alone fails because fewer women enter CS and women leave at double the male rate: 41% leave STEM by year ten and 37% cite unfairness as the main reason, costing tech an estimated $16B annually. Carnegie Mellon raises enrollment from 25% to 50% and boosts graduation rate +7% in three years by building community and visibility, not separate classes. Companies with top-quartile gender diversity see ~15% better returns; concrete steps include sponsorship over mentorship, private feedback framed as perception, and assume positive intent for bias reduction.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:27Meet Becca
- 0:57What this talk is not
- 2:05The moment of making a higher
- 2:24This isnt the full story
- 3:00Your team
- 3:26Diversity of thought
- 5:27Cost of unfairness
- 5:51Pipeline problem
- 6:34Computer Science
- 8:29Carnegie Mellon
- 9:19Women at SES
- 9:55Results
- 10:43Weve solved it
- 12:07Why leave
- 12:17My workplace
- 12:28Whats so macho
- 12:49Implicit bias
- 13:18Empathy
- 13:36In Action
- 14:09The Graph
- 14:37Assume Positive Intent
- 16:46Stereotype Threat
- 17:05How to Reduce Stereotype Threat
- 18:23Sponsorship
- 19:28Mentor
- 20:01Value
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