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The future of tech is female : how to achieve gender diversity /
"An accessible guide for increasing female presence and leadership in tech companies. Tech giants like Apple and Google are among the fastest growing companies in the world, leading innovations in design and development. Owning most of the world's consumer electronics and digital software...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The conundrum
- Industries that do not hire or promote
- The paradox
- Qualifications and reservations
- Poor performances by female CEOs
- A history of women in information technology
- Once upon a time
- Basic education : impediments to overcome
- The distant past and near future
- Solutions advanced
- Women to try harder : "lean in" and similar recommendations
- Mandatory quota laws
- Certificate and pledge programs
- Comply or explain regimes
- Mentoring and sponsorship
- Mandatory disclosure : the U.S. experience
- Proposals for stem education
- The industry's answer : an expanded H-1b visa program
- Solutions that may work
- Leavening stem education
- Paying close attention to the pool problem
- Enlarging the pool : easing off-ramps and enhancing on-ramps
- Measuring what you intend to manage and ways to manage it
- Adopt a version of the Rooney rule
- Theoretical feminist views
- Needed fixes? now
- Reform the gaming industry
- Final observations
- Appendix A. Publicly held information technology companies
- Appendix B. Women senior executives in publicly held information technology companies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.