✨ A curated list of amazingly awesome articles, websites and resources about diversity in technology. ✨
Always work in progress.
Organizations bringing diversity to tech.
- Black Girls Code - Organization devoted to showing the world that black girls can code.
- Bridge Troll - Events organized by volunteers to empower people with technology.
- Diversity Charter - Charter to show that you care about diversity.
- Django Girls - Non-profit organization and a community that empowers and helps women to organize programming workshops.
- Girl Develop It - Nonprofit organization that exists to provide affordable and judgment-free opportunities for women interested in learning web and software development.
- Girls Who Code - Organization which aims to close the gender gap in technology.
- GoodForPoc - A list of inclusive companies for people of color in tech.
- Hack the Hood - Non-profit organization that introduces low-income youth of color to careers in tech.
- Hidden Genius Project - Program to connect young black males with all they need to become high-performing entrepreneurs and technologists.
- Ping a Programadoras - Group of women and people of non-binary gender whose purposes are the reflection and empowerment in the field of technology.
- Project Include - Non-profit organization that uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry.
- PyLadies - International mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community.
- Rails Girls - Organization which aims to give tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas.
- R-Ladies - A worl-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community.
- She++ - Non-profit organization that works to empower underrepresented groups in technology by dismantling negative stereotypes surrounding technical careers.
- Teens Exploring Technology - Encourages inner city teenage Black and Latino males to become catalysts of change in urban communities.
- TLA Women In Tech - Working group dedicated to increasing gender balance and equality in tech.
- Women Techmakers - Google's program that provides visibility, community, and resources for women in technology.
- YesWeTech - Feminist community working for an egalitarian and proud culture of women interested in technology.
The following is a list of conferences that make a special effort to be inclusive and encourage diversity
The following are collections of various types of resources (talks, documents, blog posts etc) for being an ally in any diversity efforts.
- Better Male Allies - By Code Like a Girl.
- Resources For Allies - By Lara Hogan.
The following is a list of individual resources with actionable items for being an ally in any diversity efforts.
- 10 Actionable Ways To Actually Increase Diversity In Tech - By Catherine Ashcraft.
- Building Inclusive Communities - By Karolina Szczur.
- Gender Decoder for Job Ads - By Kat Matfield.
- How to build inclusive culture - By Nicole Sanchez.
- So, you just learned there are issues with the tech industry. Now what? - By Stephanie Slattery.
- Top 10 everyday actions any hiring manager can do to diversify their candidate pipeline - By Code Like a Girl.
- Tracking compensation and promotion inequity - By Lara Hogan.
- What Does Sponsorship Look Like? - By Lara Hogan.
Both articles and posts on diversity and inclusiveness in technology.
- A Brief History Of Women In Computing - By Faruk Ateş.
- Ellen Pao: Has Anything Really Changed for Women in Tech? - By Ellen Pao.
- Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand - By Gemma Hartley.
- How tech’s lack of diversity leads to racist software - By Wendy Lee.
- How “Good Intent” Undermines Diversity and Inclusion - By Annalee
- Racial bias at tech companies is real - By Suzannah Weiss.
- Software Development 450 Words per Minute - By Tuukka Ojala, a Blind Software Engineer.
- ThoughtWorks' Insights on Inclusivity:
- True Diversity Is Intersectional - By Ellen Pao.
- Why Diverse Teams Matter - By Brad McLain, Catherine Ashcraft and Lucy Sanders.
- Why I Care About Diversity in Tech - By Tracy Chou.
- Why Men Don't Believe The Data On Gender Bias In Science - By Allison Coil.
- Why we shouldn't underestimate the power of diversity - By Joi Ito and Jeff Howe.
- Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity - By Stefanie K. Johnson and David R. Hekman.
Talks and presentations about diversity, consensual software and safe communities.
- 9 Ways to Stop Hurting and Start Helping Women in Tech - By Brianna Wu.
- Consensual Software: Prioritizing Trust & Safety for new features - By Danielle Leong.
- Diversity in Tech: Building Inclusivity - By Maxine Williamns.
- Software Art Thou: Debugging the Tech Industry - By Lena Reinhard.
- The Future of STEM Depends on Diversity - By Nicole Cabrera Salazar.
- Why We Need Diversity in Technology - By Rebekah Michael.
People who publicly support and empower underrepresented groups in tech.
- FolksWhoCode - Organization which aims for a more rich and diverse tech community.
Please see CONTRIBUTING for more details. Here you have the alphabetical list of contributors of this repository.
This project is part of the folkswhocode organization. This means that it adheres to its core values, code of conduct and contributing guidelines, and uses an equivalent license.
Our Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant.