Is It a Pipe Line Problem?

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i often walk around bob with a sheet of the top ten schools that these companies are recruiting from. And to tell them exactly this is how many women in their engineering departments, 20 graduated in their siest part. These are the schools that you recruit from. Why doesn't your technology team reflect the graduation rates of these colleges? I got to go talk to my head of h r. They don't know they're not operating aritocracies. You can't say, i's a pipe line problem any but you have to start looking at and trying to figure out,. why is it that they're not ing in the door or thei're leaving.

“It’s not about fixing women. It’s about fixing the system,” says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code and Marshall Plan for Moms. As the author of the new book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work, Reshma calls out corporate feminism and society’s assumption that women have to solve the problems of workplace achievement on their own. She argues that childcare is an economic issue that should be subsidized by employers, and that the discourse around the “future of work” needs to move beyond employees’ return to the workplace. Reshma also takes Silicon Valley to task for not diversifying their tech force.

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