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Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech
(www.wired.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Except when you cannot find any female candidates to apply for your openings, so you go to a conference to do ad-hoc interviews.
If you cannot find (female) candidates for an opening, maybe it is time to re-evaluate the jobs you are offering, and how you are doing this.
I agree. HR is constantly trying to train managers to write more inclusive job descriptions. I also wonder how many female candidates are lost in pre-screening.
Purely coding, gender may have no relationship to individual code quality.
The desire to have diverse teams comes from studies that show a correlation between team diversity and making better decisions. A team with diverse backgrounds is likely to consider more options and bring up more concerns. That is important when doing design work or code review.