Class 14
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When women stopped coding
Q. What occurred during the same time as the beginning of the decline of women in computer science?
- Personal computers were released roughly arounf the same time.
Q. Why does it matter that males had been playing on computers growing up?
- These personal computers were marketed towards boys and men, and so the concept of geek and computer culture came from this, pushing away the market from girls and women.
Diversity docs
Q. When are diversity efforts most successful?
- Diversity efforts are most successful when a company understands the benefit of having a diverse team with different appinions, background, and experience.
Q. Why do diverse companies perform better?
- With more openness to diversity, more ideas and concepts are accepted and overall makes a team feel closer to one another by embracing everyones differences.
Q. Give an example of how a diverse company can serve a diverse user base or vise-versa.
- With a wide range of people with different backgrounds and culture, its much easier for a company to reach out to a much wider audience/ customer base because they can relate to the companys workers.