Here’s a small collection of reading and resource materials focused on tech careers, women, and workplace diversity.
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Reports and papers
50 Ways to Fight Bias
Resources for Organisations: Information for event moderators
Overview: session goals
- Educate people on how to identify bias in the workplace, using 50 specific examples
- Encourage solutions-oriented discussion and get research-backed recommendations for what to do and why it matters
- Commit to one #EachforEqual action that you will take to challenge gender bias in the workplace this year
“Championing Equality in the Workplace”
Resources for Organisations: Information for event moderators
Overview: session goals
- Provide a snapshot of the state of women in the workplace, and how we can all help to create a more equal world in 2020 and beyond
- Discuss research-backed recommendations for the role each of us as individuals can play, to champion equality in the workplace
- Guide individuals to commit to one action to support #EachforEqual this year
Women in the Workplace is the largest comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate America. In 2015, McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.Org launched the study to help companies advance diversity in the workplace. Since then, close to 600 companies have participated in the study, more than a quarter of a million people were surveyed on their workplace experiences. Every year, the number of companies participating in this study has increased.
Women in Business: beyond policy to progress
Global annual report from Grant Thornton on women in business. In this year’s report Women in Business: Whilst businesses globally have taken one step forward and one step back on women in leadership, New Zealand has taken two firm steps back. Report from: Grant Thornton
Women in the Workplace
Women in the Workplace 2018 is the largest comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate America. Since 2015, LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company have published this report annually to give companies and employees the information they need to advance women and improve gender diversity within their organizations Study from: McKinsey&Company
The Case for Investing in Women
Research over the last decade has proven that companies benefit when they actively recruit, develop, and advance women. This paper summarises these research findings and insights, presenting the key advantages organizations can expect to gain by improving the balance of women in the workforce. Paper from: Anita Borg Institute
Decoding Diversity
How to attract and retain girls and women in tech education. A guide for education and training providers seeking inspiration to encourage greater numbers of women and girls into digital technology education programmes. Prepared by: Ministry for Women
Other online resources
- Ministry for Women – Science and Tech
- National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women
- Gender Decoder for Job Ads
- Grant Thornton – Diversity & Talent Hub
- NZ TechHub – Careers in IT
