Publication of Gender-Inclusive Best Practices Policies
In order to smash barriers to technological education, we have considered for some time the social and gender-based barriers to participating in the computing sphere. We want our beneficiaries to represent the rich diversity of all of the society around: therefore the efficacy and transparency of our policies to increase gender diversity in a male-orientated field is very important to us.
We believe it is important to do what we say, not just talk about it, which is why we have included the policies we are actively trying to achieve below:
- Train our staff on gender biases and role attribution
- Ask preferred pronouns and names in our registration forms to use in future sessions
- Increase publicity of non-male role models in the technology sector through our monthly newsletter to students
- Review our teaching resources to make sure we use gender inclusive language and engage female students without pigeon-holing them into “Pink Tech” or feminine stereotypes
- Open lines of communication with non-male specific networks for collaboration
- Plan to hold a gender-specific event to increase female participation and recruitment to our programme
- And finally, do just this, publish our Gender Best Practices to show full transparency that we are a safe place to encourage education for all
If you are curious and want to read more, you can download a copy of our Gender-Inclusive Best Practices document below!