The San Francisco Chronicle discusses an oft-neglected aspect of tech workforce diversity: age.
“‘Walk into any hot tech company and you’ll find disproportionate representation of young Caucasian and Asian males,’ said Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. ‘All forms of diversity are important, for the same reasons: workforce demand, equality of opportunity and quality of end product.'”
That’s of course only a tiny fraction of what was said. Read the full argument (which does not focus on age) here and here.
Read the Chronicle article here.