Diversity in The Tech Industry

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Diversity in The Tech Industry

• This is Time to Acknowledge Diversity in the Tech
  Industry

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• The Technology industry has been widely seen as
  an unnecessarily exclusive area for a long time
  now. Your average programmer archetype is usually
  a white man, reinforced by years of media
  portrayals of computing, coding and gaming as
  solely mens pursuits. Initially it was just a
  marketing gimmick to sell the latest Commodore or
  Sinclair products, but like many advertising
  campaigns, its message has become part of popular
  culture and crafted a mould which every
  programmer, or anyone interested in computing is
  expected to follow.
• However, as more and more companies in the
  technology industry are trying to embrace
  diversity, either by hiring more employees from
  minority groups or simply making positive
  soundbites about it, its time to analyse why
  some in the tech industry insist on perpetuating
  attitudes that alienate potential friends and
  employees and hold back the industry as a whole.
• One part of the issue is that a lot of tech
  experts view their field of expertise like a
  treehouse club rather than an open industry, open
  to everyone. A lot of people feel a sense of
  oneness and community in their chosen occupation,
  which if left isolated and unchallenged leads to
  a Groupthink-esque situation, where talented and
  friendly people are automatically excluded from
  the ingroup due to something that seems to
  threaten the cohesiveness of the group, like a
  woman joining a field/hobby dominated by men,
  such as engineering, the military and computing.

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• A storm of controversy recently erupted over a
  memo written by a Google employee that disputes
  the origins of the long-debated pay gap between
  female and male employees. In it, he labels
  attempts to bring a more diverse group of
  employees into the company unfair, presumably
  to the vast majority of white men that dominate
  the field. He then accuses Google itself of
  having an undue bias towards left-leaning,
  progressive politics, but the most disturbing
  aspect of it is when he attempts to use
  long-debunked evolutionary psychology talking
  points that imply women arent as biologically
  capable as men at performing IT-related tasks,
  citing anxiety as a common issue with female
  tech employees and suggesting women would work
  better in creative fields like artistry.
• He was promptly fired, but not before the memo
  and its aftershock became another cause célèbre
  on right-wing internet circles, seeing it as
  another example of the culture war in tech.
  This is the uglier side of the pushback against
  diversity, where many see the inclusion of people
  outside the usual programmer archetype as
  infiltration by a malevolent outside force. Many
  who attempt to persevere despite this are
  harassed and demeaned, not just online by
  anonymous trolls but also in the workplace by
  their fellow employees. Despite all the attention
  and pressure being put on companies hiring
  employees from more diverse fields, it seems that
  a lot of these employees end up quitting early in
  their careers due to the stress that all of this
  behaviour causes.

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• The technology industry was never a white, male,
  straight, European boys-only club. Computer
  science has been contributed to by just about
  every corner of the globe, by every gender,
  sexuality and ethnicity despite frequently being
  scrubbed from the books, accidentally or
  deliberately. The toxic atmosphere that has been
  cultivated around this field will only hold the
  technology industry back in the long term as more
  and more young hobbyists and enthusiasts have
  their dreams dashed the second they step through
  the door into the workplace, or onto an online
  forum.

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• Despite the commonality of the views expressed in
  the Google memo, the fact that the employee was
  fired for it should signal some progress in
  fighting this. Lets hope this pushback against
  diversity is only the remnants of an exclusionary
  and once-dominant attitude in the industry, and
  we can finally harness the talents of those who
  were turned down or harassed out of the industry
  for no reason other than prejudice.
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