<aside> đź“– Try Catch Essentials: Diversity in Tech 1. Introduction of Scale 2. Diversity Workplace Reports 3. Diversity in VC Funding 4. How Diversity Affects the Bottom Line 5. Women in the Workplace 6. Inclusive Leadership 7. True Gender Inclusion in Tech 8. LBGTQ+ Inclusion in Tech Conclusion & Acknowledgements
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The first step is go down the rabbit hole of Project Include’s homepage.
Project Includes’s database of 14 recommendation pages serves as an accurate approximation of the the daunting experience of determining where to begin in exploring Diversity.
If you don’t know where to start or if you’re a D&I veteran, Project Include deserves to be the landing page for Diversity in Tech queries.
It could use some updating, but as you scroll through the site, you’ll recognize just how much effort went in to developing the database.
We direct our readers here to begin because if we’re going to work together tackle the Diversity issue within the tech industry, it’s important to know what we’re looking at before trying to come up with a solution - this is to mitigate the Law of the Instrument phenomenon.
<aside> 💡 Pro Tip: We suggest using a highlighter Chrome-extension (Super Simple Highlighter lives up to its name) as you’ll most likely have to come back to the archive from time to time, and remembering where you’ve been is difficult in dense texts. ⌥1 command ready?
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The Hiring Recommendation page is without a doubt the single most relevant Project Include article for our readers. We urge you to read other sections as well - since the topic is as intersectional as it is dense - but if you read just one page on their site, this is the one.
It features great advice such as where to consider looking for talent, where to focus your copywriting efforts for job descriptions and lots of interviewing suggestions. It's an interesting practice to review current hiring practices with an inclusive mindset and see which areas an organization can diversify itself to ensure biases aren't at play to undermine business efforts.
Women in Tech Band Together to Track Diversity, After Hours
A 2016 NYT profile of the eight women founders of Project Include, documenting the origin of the organization. Imagine creating a resource of this scale, as an on-the-side project, in collaboration with other busy Silicon Valley-based CEOs.
Unraveling the Myth of Meritocracy in Tech
The Atlantic’s 2018 interview with PI co-founder, Tracy Chou, where she talks about her call-out toward Silicon Valley’s sexist culture issues. The article supplements the podcast interview, here’s the Spotify link.