Put Up or Shut Up: An Open Letter to Tech Companies Seeking Diverse Teams
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Claim: 50% of women quit tech within 10 years. Evidence: an anonymous survey reports widespread unpaid diversity labor, no HR recourse, pay gaps and hostile day‑to‑day cultures. Money moves: Google 150 million / Intel 150 million pledges, but companies like Twitter ignore abuse while volunteers build fixes. Concrete fixes that work: emergency safe spaces, shared blocking and funded maintainer support, firing serial harassers, equalizing salaries, gender‑neutral restrooms, paid diversity roles and retention metrics — measure retention not just hires.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:49Trigger Warnings
- 13:10Reframing the conversation
- 15:32What can we learn from babies and Test Driven Development?
- 19:35How Can You Fix Your Leaky Bucket?
- 25:30Don't center yourself in spaces created by and for underrepresented groups.
- 27:34#DoingitRight
- 30:30What I Would Do With $450 Million & a Male Allies Panel
- 34:21Techtown Portland Diversity Pledge
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