Meet the contributors
As we mentioned before you won’t be learning alone. Besides each other, you’ll be hearing from some incredible people working to make technologies more inclusive. So now, we’d like to …
Course: Gender-Inclusive Approaches in Technology
Practitioners and organisations to follow
By taking these courses you are now part of a global network of people looking to build more equitable futures for technology and we can’t wait to see what you …
Getting ready to learn online
You’ve chosen to be part of the community of learners on this course and we want you to get the most out of the experience! This course will offer opportunities …
Tokenistic Representation
Now, we’d like to introduce you to two different examples, both of which have been critiqued for failing to achieve meaningful representation. Starbucks – Every name’s a story This is …
Gender and Targeted Advertising
There is no escaping the fact that advertising is an important part of building a new product or service, as every business needs to be able to reach its customers …
What is the correlation between data collection and gender inequality?
Data has become a digital currency for tech companies. When we sign up for new products and services, we are often consenting to our data being used by companies for …
Welcome to week 3
Welcome back, it’s week 3, the last week before you move on to the Anti-Racist Approaches in Technology course. So, last week we began to bring gender-inclusive approaches to the …
Wrapping up week 2
Congratulations, you’ve reached the end of week 2. This week we learnt how to create a gender-inclusive design process. We began by thinking about how we can form diverse design …
Speculative futures: brief
As we begin to approach the end of this course it’s time to think about the future. Ultimately, the creation of gender-inclusive technologies leads to more equitable futures for everyone, …
Why gender-based discrimination is prevalent in the tech industry
What are the knock-on effects of gender inequalities in the technology industry? In 2017, a group of over 60 current and former employees began the process of suing Google, bringing forth …