We've Always Been Here: Women Changemakers in Tech
summary
A rapid checklist: specific claims and numbers — diverse companies are 35% more likely to outperform, 45% likelier to grow market share, 70% likelier to capture new markets; teams with one member sharing client ethnicity understand needs 152% more. Concrete work and tools — Grace Hopper’s first compiler and COBOL, Radia Perlman’s spanning‑tree protocol, Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo flight‑control software that prevents overload, Sophie Wilson’s ARM (30+ billion chips shipped), Tracy Chou’s public diversity spreadsheet (≈268 companies), Erica Baker’s salary spreadsheet and its consequences.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 0:39Who Needs Women, anyway?
- 7:16From Clerical to Cool
- 11:43The Changemakers: Celebrated
- 29:36How to Stay Woke
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