Examples of Successful Efforts

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• Harvard Business School Case Study: Gender Equity — Jodi Kantor (The New York Times)

• How One College Is Closing The Computer Science Gender Gap — Wendy Kaufman (NPR)

• Pinterest launches inclusive search tool beauty enthusiasts will love — Jacqueline Laurean Yates (Good Morning America, Yahoo! News)

• Etsy CTO: Prioritizing Diversity in Our Hiring Fielded Better Women … and Men — Rebecca J. Rosen (The Atlantic)

• Etsy’s Trying to Fix Tech’s Women Problem. Why Aren’t You? — Ann Friedman (Matter)

• French Women in Politics: The Long Road to Parity — Caroline Lambert (Brookings)

• Amazing things happen when you give female athletes the same funding as men — Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak, Donna de Varona (World Economic Forum)

• Title IX and the Rise of Female Athletes in America — Women’s Sports Foundation

• Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians — Claudia Goldin, Cecilia Rouse (Harvard Kennedy School)

• Inclusion Interviewing — Jason Wong

• Diversity at Slack: An update, May 2019 — Slack

• GoDaddy Promoted 30% More Women This Year (& They’re Hiring) — Amy Elisa Jackson

• Etsy’s commitment to diversity and inclusion — Jennifer McKaig (Etsy Impact)

• Building Inclusive Engineering Teams — Mekka Okereke (Recall Act)

• Atlassian Boosted Its Female Technical Hires By 80% — Here’s How — Aubrey Blanche (First Round Review)

• How Hiring a Recruiter Can Help Improve Diversity — Baron Schwartz (VividCortex)

• Building a More Inclusive Startup: Introducing the Diversity Dashboard — Courtney Seiter (Buffer)

• Update on Gusto’s Engineering Diversity Goals — Edward Kim (Gusto)