This article has another very interesting take on the gender imbalance of the Silicon Valley tech community. I found the author's take on unconscious-bias training being ubiquitous in the community, yet largely ineffective at achieving its goals, particularly intriguing. I also found it very interesting how, in the typical fashion of Silicon Valley, start-ups have emerged to help larger companies solve diversity issues through innovative, technological means. This article serves as somewhat of a more optimistic contrast to today's Article of the Day (https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/), which discredits a good amount of that article's arguments. I'm not sure what the best solution is to this issue, but I feel that making an attempt at improvent, like companies in this article were said to be actively doing in the
Sorry, that last sentence should read "I'm not sure what the best solution is to this issue, but I feel that making an attempt at improvement, like companies in this article were said to be actively doing, can only help advance the cause."
This article has another very interesting take on the gender imbalance of the Silicon Valley tech community. I found the author's take on unconscious-bias training being ubiquitous in the community, yet largely ineffective at achieving its goals, particularly intriguing. I also found it very interesting how, in the typical fashion of Silicon Valley, start-ups have emerged to help larger companies solve diversity issues through innovative, technological means. This article serves as somewhat of a more optimistic contrast to today's Article of the Day (https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/), which discredits a good amount of that article's arguments. I'm not sure what the best solution is to this issue, but I feel that making an attempt at improvent, like companies in this article were said to be actively doing in the
Sorry, that last sentence should read "I'm not sure what the best solution is to this issue, but I feel that making an attempt at improvement, like companies in this article were said to be actively doing, can only help advance the cause."