The Importance Of Gender Diversity

The gender diversity is a serious problem in most STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) industry. In our company, iNova, there is a serious lack of gender diversity that we only have 24 percent female in the workplace.

First, our company should understand the importance of gender diversity. In the first article “Why Workplace Gender Diversity Matters”, Anne Marsan pointed out directly that most tech companies lack of gender diversity. Then she explained several reasons why gender diversity matters to companies. Using logos, she mentioned that women in U.S. purchased 50 percent of computers, 50 percent of cars and 80 percent of consumer goods. In other words, organizations with gender diversity are better to connect with

In the second article “Why is gender diversity so much easier than to solve than racial diversity”, Micah Singleton (2015) mentioned that most major companies had shown they are lack of gender diversity from the recent statistic. When asked them to change this situation, most of companies including Snapchat, GoPro and Uber were unresponsive and some of companies including Tesla and Netflix even declined. Using a specific example as logos, Singleton (2015) mentioned Airbnb who wants to improve gender diversity in the workplace as a good role to illustrate the approach that the company can make to increase gender diversity.

Finally, our company should find some ways to boost gender diversity. In the third article “How to boost gender diversity in STEM”, using gender ratio statistics of 14 major tech companies Abby Perkins (2014) showed how serious of the gender diversity. Using ethos, Perkins (2014) mentioned the current trends in U.S. that only a few women are interested in STEM field. Consequently, to increase the diversity for real, it should be taken much earlier – in the education. Then he suggested several specific methods to achieve the gender

To improve the gender diversity, Airbnb hired educator to educate all employee about diversity issues such as “unconscious bias” (M. Singleton, 2015). Airbnb recent report showed that 43 percent of tech and 39 percent of leadership position are fulfilled by female which had a lot of progress in gender diversity compared to other company Google and Microsoft who only have 17 percent of female in technology roles. Successfully achieving this progress, Airbnb did a lot to attract more women. For example, Airbnb worked with many organizations which support women in workplace such as Girls Who Code and sent employees to conference to inspire next generation. As a leader in the tech field, Airbnb definitely shows that through actions, companies have ways to shrink gender gaps. Beside Airbnb, Micah Singleton also mentions Intel are outliers of most companies. Intel recently announced that they would like spend 300 million to improve diversity in the future, but we still need to see the