<story><title>Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture, Just Not Meritocracy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-thinks-can-learn-skater-culture-terrible-idea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m-photonic</author><text>&amp;quot;When I&amp;#x27;m hiring, I have an HR intern (or the external recruiter) strip anything that could indicate gender or race from the résumés before they get their initial evaluation. For the ones that make the first cut, I have the recruiter print out code from Github, with the username redacted. This has resulted in a tremendous increase in the number of women who make it through to an actual interview.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://devmynd.com/blog/2015-2-mind-the-gap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;devmynd.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2015-2-mind-the-gap&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>smoyer</author><text>Gasp! I knew girls with hair like that ... and I hung out with girls that skated (and did BMX and gymnastics).  Judged by the timing, I must be about the same age as Ms. Siera and it&amp;#x27;s kind of an amazing parallel universe in some ways (I had an injury I never recovered from enough to return to the so-called &amp;quot;extreme sports&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;In any case, I&amp;#x27;m old (yeah ... I said it) now and definitely agree that we need more diversity in our tech work-places.  We have an additional problem as our applicant pool is extremely homogeneous.  How do we fix that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Anderkent</author><text>Show us the data. Unless you believe an average woman is better at the job than the average man, stripping all gender &amp;#x2F; race information should at best bring it up to the baseline; with the huge skew at the college level (maybe 10% of my year at graduation were women) this doesn&amp;#x27;t really result in a &amp;#x27;tremendous increase in the number of women&amp;#x27;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture, Just Not Meritocracy</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silicon-valley-thinks-can-learn-skater-culture-terrible-idea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m-photonic</author><text>&amp;quot;When I&amp;#x27;m hiring, I have an HR intern (or the external recruiter) strip anything that could indicate gender or race from the résumés before they get their initial evaluation. For the ones that make the first cut, I have the recruiter print out code from Github, with the username redacted. This has resulted in a tremendous increase in the number of women who make it through to an actual interview.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://devmynd.com/blog/2015-2-mind-the-gap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;devmynd.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2015-2-mind-the-gap&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>smoyer</author><text>Gasp! I knew girls with hair like that ... and I hung out with girls that skated (and did BMX and gymnastics).  Judged by the timing, I must be about the same age as Ms. Siera and it&amp;#x27;s kind of an amazing parallel universe in some ways (I had an injury I never recovered from enough to return to the so-called &amp;quot;extreme sports&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;In any case, I&amp;#x27;m old (yeah ... I said it) now and definitely agree that we need more diversity in our tech work-places.  We have an additional problem as our applicant pool is extremely homogeneous.  How do we fix that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jobu</author><text>Kudos to you, that&amp;#x27;s a great way of doing it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve worked with a few women in technical roles that decided to take more masculine versions of their names (Jackie -&amp;gt; Jack, Ashley -&amp;gt; Ash, Jessica to Jesse). For two of them it started out as a way of getting hassled less online, and the other did it as an experiment to see which resume got more interviews (surprise, the masculine name got more than double the callbacks.)</text></comment>