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All Nerds Not Welcome: Why Tech’s Diversity Problem Matters

All Nerds Not Welcome: Why Tech’s Diversity Problem Matters

FromMorning Brew Daily


All Nerds Not Welcome: Why Tech’s Diversity Problem Matters

FromMorning Brew Daily

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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Dec 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A few weeks back, Apple came under fire for allegedly deploying biased algorithms to determine credit limits for its Apple Card. Some women were given lower spending limits than male counterparts (counterparts who made less money or even had worse credit).

We don’t have to be the ones to tell you that’s a problem, but...that’s a problem. There is a gender gap in tech, and that gender gap leads to worse products for everyone. So...

This week on Morning Brew’s weekly podcast Business Casual, we pick apart how that gender gap came to be, how it’s affecting the bottom line, and why the whole of society should care. To explain it all, Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code.

Boiling it down: You’ve read the stories of gender bias, sexual harassment, and more at companies like Google, Uber, etc. And those stories tend to sink stock prices. So even if you’re not a woman, your Robinhood account could suffer if tech companies don’t get their diversity initiatives in check.
Released:
Dec 3, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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