Prof. Barba gave keynote at PyData London

Prof. Lorena Barba delivers a keynote at PyData London 2019.

The keynote was titled "One step forward, two steps back: the frustration of diversity efforts in STEM," and it focused on women in technology. It picks up from the latest string of anti-diversity backlash, then discusses historical and economic aspects of occupational sex segregation, why diversity matters, getting unconscious-bias training right, gender quotas, the DataCamp incident that exploded in April 2019, and more.

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"One step forward, two steps back: the frustration of #diversity efforts in STEM"—slides for my #PyDataLDN keynote https://t.co/8Pf9aIm2rX #genderbias

— Lorena Barba (@LorenaABarba) July 14, 2019

Delighted that @LorenaABarba is at #PyDataLDN for the closing keynote.

One step forward, two steps back: the frustration of diversity efforts in STEM - https://t.co/0OZXs1b01i pic.twitter.com/tZOdehjeWc

— Kirstie Whitaker (@kirstie_j) July 14, 2019

Great overview in @LorenaABarba’s closing #PyDataLDN keynote of the DataCamp failure. Not just of the harassment by the CEO, but of the fact that it took a huge community (the #RStats community!!) over a year to convince the company to act https://t.co/PKhK4oXT3w

— Kirstie Whitaker (@kirstie_j) July 14, 2019

Very thought provoking closing #keynote at #PyDataLDN by @LorenaABarba highlighting frustrations of #diversity #equity & #inclusion efforts in #STEM.

It's not on women to fix the representation issue!
We need more women in leadership and male leaders who are allies.#PyData pic.twitter.com/OATiEB1DEf

— Florian Rathgeber @ #DevOpsDaysTLV (@frathgeber) July 14, 2019

“merit is a fallacy.” this is a hugely misunderstood intervention. quotas raise quality. -⁦@LorenaABarba⁩ #pydataldn pic.twitter.com/b9DryRhrGh

— Lynn Cherny (@arnicas) July 14, 2019