Tech Diversity Meetup

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1. Tech Diversity Meetup @ STYLIGHT
2. #ILookLikeAnEngineer
3. #ILookLikeAnEngineer
4. #ILookLikeAnEngineer
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO0cvqT1tAE
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIGyVa5Xftw
8. #ILookLikeAnEngineer How do we change this image? How does this image affect accessibility? This is not just a gender issue! What other factors are affected accessibility in tech careers?
9. “I always feel like I’m behind, trying to catch up to a group of super-elites who’ve been programming since they could walk.” - Tess Rinearson, “On Technical Entitlement”
10. Privilege (n.) the sociological concept that some groups of people have advantages relative to other groups.
11. Privilege • not a conversation ender • discussion tool for brainstorming target areas for tackling a societal problem
12. Privilege Walk
13. Tech Privilege Walk • This is an experiment! • Questions related to “technical privileges” • Participation optional • Step forward or back based on how much one identifies with a question, no pressure to move for any question
14. If there were more than 50 books in your house growing up, take one step forward.
15. If you believe that you were denied employment because of your race, gender, or ethnicity, take one step back.
16. If you believe that you were paid less because of your race, gender, or ethnicity, take one step back.
17. If you have ever felt uncomfortable about a joke directed at your gender, take one step back.
18. If your parents or guardians attended college, take one step forward.
19. If you are reasonably sure that you will not be denied access to jobs or political resources because of your gender, take one step forward.
20. If you are reasonably sure you would be hired based on your ability and qualifications, take one step forward.
21. If your family automatically expected you to attend university, take one step forward.
22. If you were able to go to your first choice of university, take one step forward.
23. If you had to take out loans or work extra jobs during university to finance tuition, take one step backward.
24. If your parents worked nights and weekends to support your family, take one step backward.
25. If you get time off for your religious holidays, take one step forward.
26. If you have a foreign accent, take one step backward.
27. If you can walk alone at any time of day or night in Munich without thinking about safety, take one step forward.
28. If you went to galleries, museums, and plays with your family, take one step forward.
29. If you were raised in a single-parent household, take one step backward.
30. If members of your gender are portrayed on TV in degrading roles, take one step backward.
31. If you are affected by a physical or mental disability, take on step backward.
32. If you did not study Computer Science before university, take one step backward.
33. If your schools before university had Computer Science classes, take one step forward.
34. If English is your native language, take one step forward.
35. If one of your parents studied or worked in a STEM profession, take one step forward.
36. If you work in a company where there is someone in management similar to you in terms of both gender, race, and socioeconomic background, take one step forward.
37. If someone has spoken to you in a condescending way in the workplace, take one step backward.
38. If you are working in a language that is not your native language, take one step back.
39. If you owned your own personal computer before the age of 18, take one step forward.
40. If you are working in a language that is not your native language, take one step back.
41. If your family did not own a computer when you were growing up, take one step backward.
42. If you are the one primarily responsible for taking care of your children, take one step backward.
43. If someone ever has told you that you do not look like a person who studies X or works in Y profession, take one step backward.
44. Where do we go from here?
45. Thoughts? Questions?