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33 items in DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Hierarchical sorting amongst males is an important factor moderating interaction with females. tl:dr: if you’re a competent woman, you’re a status threat to an incompetent man. 
Issue #58 published 23 Apr 2020
Long read and challenging findings on a well researched phenomenon. Is the issue based on evolutionary pressures / mate competition? And if, so what exactly can be done about it. One to ruminate over. H/T to OH subscriber Diana Pavel for the share
Issue #43 published 23 Apr 2020
We need greater nuance in understanding identity. Segmentation by broad persistent categories is done away with by Deloitte as it didn’t deliver the outcomes they were designed to deliver. Now what? 
Issue #43 published 23 Apr 2020
From Travis to Hollywood to Trump, we’ve see plenty of examples this year of what can happen when D&I isn’t at the heart of what you do. Our buddies at Lever have been a shining light in what has been a dark year for D&I. This is a fantastic resource that I strongly recommend you download and read. 
Issue #54 published 23 Apr 2020
 We cannot get rid of the human, no matter what technique we try. To solve this, recruiting really needs to be de-coupled from human decision making. The implications of that, profound. 
Issue #29 published 23 Apr 2020
On Improving Diversity In Hiring
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“Some hiring processes are designed to make people ‘prove they want it’ but anything that selects for that will select for people for whom failure feels safer….”. Outstanding writing from Cate Huston, H/T brainfooder Stevie Buckley for the share
Issue #59 published 23 Apr 2020
Timely post in light of the culture scandals wracking well known Startups in the Silicon Valley. This is pretty strong stuff - what do we think?
Issue #37 published 23 Apr 2020
On Improving Diversity in Hiring
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“We talk about ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ but perhaps it should be 'Inclusion and Diversity’ because inclusion needs to come first”. This is a great post on a vitally important topic. Thanks to long time brainfooder Stevie Buckley for the share
Issue #52 published 23 Apr 2020
We have the will but not the way. Long read on Google’s effort at diversity. 
Issue #30 published 23 Apr 2020
Why Diversity Programs Fail
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From last year but still one of the best articles from HBR. Central premise is: you cannot outlaw bias. But you can ameliorate it through on-the-job exposure. 
Issue #30 published 23 Apr 2020
We need to understand the anthropology of work. It’s wrapped up in status, competition, hierarchy - and none of those things are going away soon. UBI will keep people alive but that is almost certainly not enough to give us what we really want - to be needed. 
Issue #38 published 23 Apr 2020
`And here is perhaps the most cogent rebuttal of the above manifesto. 3 points Yonatan Zunger makes is that OP does not understand gender, engineering or politics. 
Issue #44 published 23 Apr 2020
Googles Ideological Echo Chamber
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The now infamous internally distributed manifesto by now ex-Google engineer James Damore, who was subsequently fired for writing this document. You’ve read all the headlines - here’s the chance to read the unabridged memo for yourself. 
Issue #44 published 23 Apr 2020
Some professionals earn £6,800 a year less than those from affluent families, a study suggests. As sociologists have long known, where you were born still has a disproportionate impact on how well you will do. 
Issue #17 published 23 Apr 2020
What do we think of this? Intuitively, I feel this is true. Men seem to flee from previously male dominated professions when women enter in large numbers. Why? Perhaps this bit of anthropology can give us a clue. 
Issue #17 published 23 Apr 2020
Is diversity superficial or substantial? Received wisdom in HR and recruiting has been the former but weight of research is building that it may be the latter. How to do diversity, when we really are diverse?
Issue #7 published 23 Apr 2020
It’s about 15. And this is likely the most significant factor in gender disparity in STEM fields in the Western world. Cross cultural comparison would be interesting - I suspect gender ratios are less skewed in India or China. 
Issue #22 published 23 Apr 2020
You might be aware of the term ‘technical debt’ - the idea that early technical decisions will have a disproportionate and irreversible impact on the environment many years down the line. Diversity debt is a useful concept to make sure that you don’t do an Uber
Issue #22 published 23 Apr 2020
Maybe this is an actionable solution. Locking people into 9-to-5 desk jobs with a 1 hour commute each way has an obvious and disproportionate impact on primary care givers. Getting rid of archaic work scheduling might be the key to improving the viable choices available for working parents.
Issue #19 published 23 Apr 2020
The gender pay gap gets far worse for women once they have children. We can file this under ‘no shit Sherlock’. Better questions might be - is this is problem, for whom is it a problem and if it is a problem, what should we do about it?
Issue #19 published 23 Apr 2020
The employee referral is often cited as the best source for new employees. Well it turns out there may be a good reason for that which might, after all, be a pretty bad one.
Issue #18 published 23 Apr 2020
What the hell does this mean? Turns out having a male name reduces your chances of getting through the door whilst having a female one increased it. So gender blind led to less diversity according to this research. We need to have some hard conversations methinks. 
Issue #39 published 23 Apr 2020
I’m Not a Woman in Tech
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Let a hundred flowers bloom Mao once said. He said a lot of other shit too, but for this one I think the Great Helmsman was on the money. A challenging perspective on the politics of taxonomy and the exclusivity of groups, from a woman, who happens to be in tech. 
Issue #39 published 23 Apr 2020
In light of the US’s recent traumatic, last minute failure to reach the World Cup in Russia next year, this essay from 2016 proves prescient. It’s super relevant to our work in recruitment. It has everything - economics, diversity, opportunity, creativity vs formality. It’s a great long read on diversity and the lack of inclusion in elite sports. 
Issue #55 published 23 Apr 2020
Truth About Ageism In The Tech
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Excellent report from Visier Insights on the discrimination hidden in plain sight. Some sober reading here, especially for those on the cliff edge (that’s 40-50 to you and me). 
Issue #55 published 23 Apr 2020
Great to see recruitment tech companies lead the way in hiring best practice. Interesting story from Lever, on achieving gender diversification. 
Issue #15 published 23 Apr 2020
Ageism is perhaps the most understated yet widely accepted bias in recruiting today. And there’s nothing at all the protect against it. Tom Goodwin makes the important point on an issue we will all one day become personally familiar with. 
Issue #20 published 23 Apr 2020
If you’re tech recruiting, it’s likely that you’ve read this post from Susan Fowler already. So many things here, but the one that stood out for me was the role of HR. For too long HR tries to play the employee advocate role, when it always - and can only be - agent for corporate interest.
Issue #20 published 23 Apr 2020
Well at least we can say the James Damore Manifesto has stimulated a conversation. Here’s a take from an ex-google hiring manager, written in response to the furore. 
Issue #46 published 23 Apr 2020
Is D&I missing a letter? Pat Wadors, LinkedIn Head of HR is changing the conversation by focusing on ‘Belonging’. Can’t fault the motive, nor the analysis. If we can achieve B, we can get rid of D and I. 
Issue #14 published 23 Apr 2020
Despite incentivizing recruiters to prioritize women, black and Latino engineering candidates, the department’s demographics have not changed much in the past few years. It turns out, because tech managers are saying no at assessment stage. Is this is a problem to be solved? If so, how do we do it?
Issue #14 published 23 Apr 2020
Coding is not ‘fun’
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Important piece from Walter Vannini. There’s no doubt been a huge and well meaning drive to encourage people to take up coding, especially with a focus on diversity, but we should present a realistic vision of what is required to succeed. Coding is hard folks. Really hard. And most of us are not likely to be much good at it. 
Issue #14 published 23 Apr 2020
Is Facebook Tough on Women?
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We need to know more about Simpson’s Paradox. Good introductory summary of a significant blindspot in statistical analysis. 
Issue #31 published 23 Apr 2020