Stop Asking Women of Color to Do Unpaid Diversity Work
Leading corporate equity and inclusion efforts is a full-time job. But new research finds that technology companies don’t see it that way.
Let her do the job she was hired to do.
Photographer: BloombergThere’s a myth about the tech industry's lack of diversity: that it just reflects who studies computer science. But the pipeline is only part of the problem. The other part is company culture, which drives out many of the women and people of color who’d like to make tech their career. Over half of midcareer women leave the industry, while early-career women leave at twice the rate of men.
According to my research, there’s a simple way to make company culture less toxic: Stop asking women, particularly women of color, do work for which they aren’t paid and which ultimately hurts their careers.