In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mitch Shepard founder of WiRL about her talk at QCon and the challenges around gender diversity in the tech workforce.

Why listen to this podcast:

- Gender diversity and women leaving tech roles is a real and serious problem

- There are compelling reasons to have a more diverse workplace – both ethical and bottom line results

- “It’s nobody’s fault, but it is everybody’s problem”

- There are physiological differences between the male and female brains

- Don’t assume anything about anyone because of who they are or any characteristic they may have – we are all different

Notes and links can be found on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2jodKmn

4m:34s - “It’s nobody’s fault, but it is everybody’s problem”

4m:49s - There is strong, systematic bias which gives men an advantage which goes long and deep

5m:09s - Things driving the recognition of the issue at a personal level are often related to leaders who see the issue and are driven by an extreme sense of fairness, and seeing the women they care about impeded in their career growth

6m:14s - The business case for diversity is compelling – businesses who have a higher percentage of women leaders than the average consistently achieve better financial performance

Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2jodKmn

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