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Diversity And Inclusion

Jim Mackenzie in Signal v. Noise

Sep 21, 2017

A question of skills

One of the first books I can remember reading was A Wizard of Earthsea. I was seven or eight, and it scared me to my core. That dark ocean was real and menacing in ways I couldn’t fully appreciate until later.

Time to toss resumes on the rejection pile

Ten years ago, I was unemployed. For fifteen months I tried and failed to find a job. I scoured the internet, the newspapers, asked friends, acquaintances, strangers for introductions or hints at where to find somewhere.

Empowering the Next Generation

Women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world Sheryl Sandberg

190 heads of state / 9 are women
Of C-level jobs only 15% are women. Numbers haven’t changed since 2002 and it’s decreasing