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Diversity’s Role in TechnologyThought Leadership
• Diverse teams
• Patenting
• Conference papers
• Open source software
NCWIT tracks women’s participation in technology thought leadership. Here’s what we know so far about…
Innovation Benefits from Diversity
• 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.
Diversity of thought contributes to innovation. Research shows that …
NCWIT Supervising-in-a-Box Serieswww.ncwit.org/supervising
Female U.S. IT Patenting Low, but Improving with Time
Female Patenting Increased WhileWomen in Computing Decreased
• Read the research on women’s tech patenting www.ncwit.org/patentreport
• Implement learning communitiesin your departmentwww.ncwit.org/patentinglearning
Women Make Disproportionately High Contributions to Computing Conferences
Women and Computing Conference Publications
• 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
• 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.
Open Source Lacks Gender Diversity
• 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.
• 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
• Mentoring-in-a-Box:Technical Women at Workwww.ncwit.org/imentor
• Recognize bias in the workplacewww.ncwit.org/overtsexism
More to Learn
• NCWIT continues to follow indicators of thought leadership in computing communities, to gauge women’s inclusion (or lack thereof) and its effect on innovation.