Women in Tech
by Gillian Arnold, Hannah Dee, Clem Herman, Sharon Moore, Andrea Palmer, Shilpa Shah
FOREWORD
Over the past 20 years, I’ve been involved in many initiatives to increase the number of women in IT. I have come to the conclusion that, to make a difference, we need to do many things simultaneously, over long periods of time. These include mentoring, sponsorship or advocacy programmes, and making changes to recruitment, retention and career break processes. They also involve making sure that groups of candidates slated for promotion always include at least one woman and that interview panels are diverse. Men need to have skin in the game, being recognised and/or rewarded for making diversity changes. They need to shift the dial – and men who go out of their way to build diverse teams and hire great women are the most important ...
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