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  1. The AtlanticLiza Mundy3/14/1744 min
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    • sam5 years ago

      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

      • sam5 years ago

        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."