Gender Diversity in Tech: Info and Resources

This is a collection of resources which can be used to learn more about gender diversity and inclusion, with a focus on the tech industry.

This is intended to be a community effort - please contribute via pull requests or issues.

If you see anything problematic or inaccurate, please point it out and/or suggest a replacement. If you have any feedback or think that I’m going about this in the wrong way, say it.

Tools

• Gender Decoder for Job Ads
• JobVite Job Description Grader
• Joblint

Links

• 2019 Diversity in the Workplace Report
• Professional Women’s Network Global
• DevChix community
• Evidence That Gendered Wording in Job Advertisements Exists and Sustains Gender Inequality
• Geek Feminism Wiki
• Inclusive design at Microsoft
• Open Diversity Data
• Tips for Hiring Women in Tech From a Female CEO Who Had Trouble Hiring Women in Tech
• Strategies for Hiring Diverse Candidates

Diversity in STEM

• How Our Engineering Environments are Killing Diversity: Introduction
• Ask a Geek Feminist: the definitive “women in CS/STEM” resource thread
• Engineering Diversity
• Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
• Women Role Model Lists

Gender bias

• Gender Bias simulator
• Gender stereotyping
• Unconscious gender bias
• Project Implicit - “The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.”

Impostor syndrome

Members of underrepresented minorities and women suffer from impostor syndrome in high proportions and may be more susceptible to it.

• Impostor syndrome in tech
• Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
• Geek Feminism Wiki: Impostor syndrome

For Executives

INSEAD Gender Diversity Programme

Design Industry

• Kerning the Gap - UK
• WhyDesign - Ireland

Ireland

• Herstory

Books

Diversity

• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
• Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao

Feminism

• Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
• Feminist, Queer Crip by Alison Kafer
• Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
• The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

About the maintainer

Building empathy for every single being and situation in our world is a lifelong mission for me. Being a gender and racial minority in my industry, an activist for the right to bodily autonomy, and a volunteer in outreach programs, I did not realise that I could use my experience and voice to help others until I embarked on my quest to learn more about diversity.