Achieving Gender Parity with Active Allyship with Denise Yu
Scaling Software Teams
English - June 02, 2020 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTech News News Education software technology careers programming development web programmer internet ruby on rails leadership Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Being Black in Tech with Kevin Stewart
Denise is a Senior Engineer at GitHub, a prolific speaker, as well as an author and illustrator.
In this episode, we dive deep into the role that gender plays in inclusion. What solutions can narrow the gap between men and women on engineering teams? Listen in as Wes and Denise break it down.
Wes’ Takeaways:
Gendered language matters
We have a responsibility as allies to speak out
Documentation and the Double Rooney Rule can help us narrow gendered gaps
Don’t correct people publicly on inclusion things