How Not to Achieve Diversity: Inventing Fake Female Keynote Speakers

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How Not to Achieve Diversity: Inventing Fake Female Keynote Speakers

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Nov 29, 2023

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Diversity and representation is important for all types of organizations. But one company decided the solution to finding the right women to serve as keynote speakers was to invent them. We look at the wild story of the DevTernity 2023 conference.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Nov 29, 2023

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How Not to Achieve Diversity: Inventing Fake Female Keynote Speakers

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