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Quantifying Women in Tech

Software engineer Tracy Chou, a prominent advocate for more diversity in tech, recalls when she realized that an industry so data driven had none on the number of women in the workforce. A founding advisor to Project Include, Chou recounts how the open database she created in 2013 gave her peers a simple way to address a problem that seemed too large to do anything about individually.
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Embrace Diversity Early

Software engineer Tracy Chou, a leader in the effort to make the industry more inclusive, explains how the immediate business pressures startups face can force them to de-emphasize the issue and result in "diversity debt" that becomes much harder to overcome once the organization grows. Chou, a founding advisor to Project Include, says relying on homogenous professional networks for hiring just perpetuates the problem.
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Think Deeply About Diversity

Software engineer Tracy Chou talks about Project Include, which she helped found in 2016 to build meaningful and enduring diversity into tech companies, describing how the organization takes a holistic approach that starts with core values. She stresses the importance of adopting a comprehensive strategy, not just tactical checklists, to solve a problem as complex as homogeneity.
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Hope in Artificial Intelligence

Software engineer Tracy Chou observes how bias is easier to remove from machine-learning models than from human behavior. But she warns that bias can still creep in through the use of proxy data: for instance, excluding data on race but including closely related information like zip codes. An early employee of several Silicon Valley startups, Chou was a founding advisor to Project Include and continues to push for more diversity in tech.
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Debugging the Brogrammer Culture [Entire Talk]

Constantly ask yourself, 'Who's not in the room?" Championing diversity in tech will result in a more inclusive culture and better products.
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Tracy Chou, Project Include
Debugging the Brogrammer Culture [Entire Talk]
Constantly ask yourself, 'Who's not in the room?" Championing diversity in tech will result in a more inclusive culture and better products.

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Tracy Chou, Project Include

A Deep Dive into Silicon Valley’s Diversity Challenges

Diversity in tech has become a national conversation. In this episode of Stanford Innovation Lab, Tina Seelig speaks with software engineer and diversity advocate Tracy Chou. Tracy graduated from Stanford with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, and was an early employee at both Quora and Pinterest. In this episode, Tracy talks about her own experiences as a woman in software engineering, what she has learned as she has explored this topic in depth, and how data can inform the conversation around diversity in tech.
Podcast 32 minutes