I am in a computer science field. This field is dominated by a male in the history of research. Women tend to drop a lot or not even start a computer science degree due to various factors. To promote women in IT Field, In the U.S. in 2001, 27.6 percent of bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer science went to women, according to the National Science Foundation but it showed a drop to 17.7 in 2008. There’s a slight uptick to 18.2 in 2010.  Hurst was the only women in the room as a software developer. Despite that women made up 47% of the workforce in 2011, only 27% of those were in the computer jobs. Computer science educators and activists agree that giving access to the computer programming classes at an early stage can bring more women and minorities in the Information Technology field.

Decade of reaches have shown that Inclusion of diversity of people in the organization has gained many financial benefits and innovations and prospered creativity. Diversity is important as they bring different ideas from their experiences, information and different opinions thus creating a financial gain for the organizations. There are increased communications, increased jobs, increased tolerance and acceptance and easy resolution to a conflict with a diverse population while there are challenges working in a diversity of populations. Diversity can lead to anxiety and conflict, rougher conversations, lack of trust, perceived interpersonal conflicts and lower communication, less cohesion, more concern about disrespect, and other problems. Overall, simply being exposed to diversity can bring change in the way we think.

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Mason, Kyla Calvert. “Computer science's diversity gap starts early.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/teaching-coding-kids-key-closing-fields-diversity-gap/. Accessed 27 Aug. 2017.