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Diversity ’ s Role in Technology Thought Leadership

Diverse teams Patenting Conference papers Open source software. Diversity ’ s Role in Technology Thought Leadership. NCWIT tracks women ’ s participation in technology thought leadership. Here ’ s what we know so far about….

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Diversity ’ s Role in Technology Thought Leadership

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  1. Diverse teams Patenting Conference papers Open source software Diversity’s Role in TechnologyThought Leadership NCWIT tracks women’s participation in technology thought leadership. Here’s what we know so far about…

  2. groups with greater diversity solve complex problems better and faster than do homogenous groups. teams with 50:50 gender membership are more experimental and more efficient. Innovation Benefits from Diversity Diversity of thought contributes to innovation. Research shows that … NCWIT Supervising-in-a-Box Series www.ncwit.org/supervising

  3. Female U.S. IT Patenting Low, but Improving with Time

  4. Female Patenting Increased WhileWomen in Computing Decreased

  5. Read the research on women’s tech patenting www.ncwit.org/patentreport • Implement learning communitiesin your departmentwww.ncwit.org/patentinglearning

  6. Women Make Disproportionately High Contributions to Computing Conferences

  7. Among 64 long-standing ACM conferences, most had 20%-25% women authors Most men and women published on topics of design and theory Women were more likelyto publish on human factors and less likely to publishon algorithms Women and Computing Conference Publications

  8. Call conference organizers’ attention to diversity of speakers and presenters. • Encourage more women to submit work for publication. • Use a double-blind review processin reviews.

  9. Only 1.5% of all Open Source Software (OSS) developers are women. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the open source community is less than welcoming to women. Open Source Lacks Gender Diversity

  10. Do your part to ensure open source forums welcome diverse contributors. Encourage others to follow suit. • Read more about research on diversityin open source.www.ncwit.org/cultureos

  11. NCWIT continues to follow indicators of thought leadership in computing communities, to gauge women’s inclusion (or lack thereof) and its effect on innovation. More to Learn • Mentoring-in-a-Box:Technical Women at Workwww.ncwit.org/imentor • Recognize bias in the workplacewww.ncwit.org/overtsexism

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