The Code Manifesto
summary
Cites concrete numbers — twelve percent of CS bachelor’s degrees go to women and tech diversity reports (Twitter ~n% Facebook 16% Google 18% Yahoo 15% Apple 22% Slack 26%) — and diagnoses two causes: a pipeline problem and an exclusionary culture that includes overt threats, everyday microaggressions, and higher attrition (women leave at nearly twice the rate of men). Proposes an open source remedy: Code Manifesto is eight values on GitHub (respect, boundaries, give back, own bias/privilege), warns against quotas and “shiny unicorn” fixes, and urges specific actions like calling out bad behaviour.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:23What to expect
- 0:43The problem
- 1:07Diversity
- 2:12Statistics
- 3:40Slack
- 5:30Building Blocks
- 5:54Conditioning
- 6:20Discrimination
- 8:32Examples
- 8:42Compliments
- 10:36Girls dont like to solve problems
- 11:00Girls dont make things pretty
- 12:36What do you do for a living
- 14:40They pay us well
- 14:55We are in high demand
- 17:06Im a mom
- 17:38Grow a thick skin kid
- 20:18Invisible minorities
- 22:05Imposter syndrome
- 23:07The worth it scale
- 26:23The shiny uniform syndrome
- 28:57The Code Manifesto
- 31:58We are our biggest assets
- 34:11Opinions are opinions
- 35:08To err is human
- 36:50Call to action
- 38:07Your own bias
- 39:04Privilege
