False Start! Women Leave the Race!
summary
An internal SopraSteria network grew to 210 members and helped raise internal event speaker representation from 0% to 40% women by combining regular roundtables, mentoring, brainstorming sessions, and coding workshops for middle-schoolers. The program targets retention and visibility problems—citing global metrics like 3% GitHub (2017), ~30% women in computing but only ~15% in technical roles, 40% attrition within ten years, and 11% of engineering grads who are women—and uses explicit interventions against manterrupting and mansplaining to produce measurable gains in participation.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:15Women in computing
- 8:08Identified problems
- 11:34Solutions and actions
- 17:55Call to action
- 18:17Q&A
