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In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2016, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mitch Shepard founder of WiRL about her talk at QCon and the challenges around gender diversity in the tech workforce.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n - Gender diversity and women leaving tech roles is a real and serious problem\n - There are compelling reasons to have a more diverse workplace \u2013 both ethical and bottom line results\n - \u201cIt\u2019s nobody\u2019s fault, but it is everybody\u2019s problem\u201d\n - There are physiological differences between the male and female brains\n - Don\u2019t assume anything about anyone because of who they are or any characteristic they may have \u2013 we are all different\n\nNotes and links can be found on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2jodKmn\n\n4m:34s - \u201cIt\u2019s nobody\u2019s fault, but it is everybody\u2019s problem\u201d\n\n4m:49s - There is strong, systematic bias which gives men an advantage which goes long and deep\n\n5m:09s - Things driving the recognition of the issue at a personal level are often related to leaders who see the issue and are driven by an extreme sense of fairness, and seeing the women they care about impeded in their career growth\n\n6m:14s - The business case for diversity is compelling \u2013 businesses who have a higher percentage of women leaders than the average consistently achieve better financial performance\n\nQuick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2jodKmn\n\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/2cMnjfW