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kyliehavelock
June 20, 2017
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Normalising: better representing our users in the Ministry of Justice
My keynote at DWP Digital's Women in Digital event in Leeds
Tuesday 20th June 2017
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Transcript
Women in Digital Representing our users
@kyliehavelock @Justice_Digital
So, what inspired us?
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Vision Make our digital and technology teams more representative of
the general population and the people we build services for
How bad is it?
of those employed in Britain’s digital industries are women 27%
12% of computing degree students are women
8% of computing A-level students are women
What can we do about it?
Be passionate 1
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Get (senior) support 2
Use data 3
Set goals (not targets) 3 4
5 Experiment
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I have never been the only person of my gender
in a meeting I have never felt unsafe because of my gender True or False? If I have children and a successful career, not many people will ask me how I balance my professional and private lives Take the quiz @kyliehavelock
Reduce unconscious bias 7
7 Be gender inclusive 8 @kitation
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7 Understand intersectionality 9
LGBTQ* Black and Minority Ethnic Parents & Carers Accessibility &
Disability Mental health Wellbeing Social inclusion Age Religion Neurodiversity Geographical inclusion Gender
LGBTQ*
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Go to them 10
40% of coding bootcamp graduates are women
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60% of working mums don’t have access to flexible work
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What have we achieved?
Proportion of our digital and technology team 25% who are
women
31% 25% Proportion of our digital and technology team who
are women
Proportion of our senior management 25% who are women
38% 25% who are women Proportion of our senior management
How many of our junior developers 1 are women
1 5 How many of our junior developers are women
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