Diversity Within the Postgres Community
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A career narrative follows a path from ZEP schooling through prépa and engineering studies to a PhD and DBA management to show how gender and social diversity decrease at successive career stages. It cites business research linking ethnic and gender diversity to higher profitability and highlights MIT 2014 findings that a higher share of women raises collective intelligence. It describes concrete Postgres initiatives: Postgres Women (since 2018), the newly formed Postgres Diversity Task Force (started in April), and a US Committee for Diversity with a scholarship program.
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