Resources for Change Agents
This guide, created by the Extension Services program, helps you find resources for attracting undergraduate women into computing and retaining them through graduation, including tools ...
Male Advocates and Allies: Promoting Gender Diversity in Technology Workplaces
This report, sponsored by NCWIT’s Workforce Alliance, provides an inside look into how men think about and advocate for diversity in the technical workplace. Drawing ...
Diversity in Computing: Why It Matters and How Organizations Can Achieve It
Computing-related jobs are interesting, well-paying, secure, and abundant, so why aren’t more women working in this creative field that produces the technology that is central ...
Girls in IT: The Facts
Girls in IT: The Facts, sponsored by NCWIT’s K-12 Alliance, is a synthesis of the existing literature on increasing girls’ participation in computing. It aims to bring ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Full Series
Employees report that the supervisory relationship is one of the most significant factors in their decision to leave or stay with an organization. Are you, ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Employee Recruitment/Selection
Supervising-in-a-Box: Employee Recruitment/Selection provides supervisors with resources for recruiting and hiring the best talent. This “Box” includes background information, a training guide, tip sheets, resources ...
Evaluating a Mentoring Program Guide
Need help evaluating your mentoring program? This resource provides a step-by-step plan with example metrics for evaluating a workplace mentoring program (in either industry or ...
How Does the Physical Environment Affect Women’s Entry and Persistence in Computing?
The décor of physical spaces conveys messages about the kinds of people who belong there and the kinds of activities that should be done there. ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Supervisors as Change Agents
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Supervisors as Change Agents is for supervisors who wish to become change agents in their organizations. The materials are focused on actions that ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Performance Review/Talent Management
Supervising-in-a-Box: Performance Review/Talent Management provides supervisors with resources for reducing biases in performance evaluation and talent management systems. This “Box” includes tip sheets, resources for ...
Strategic Planning for Increasing Women’s Participation in the Computing Industry
This workbook presents guidelines for strategic planning to reach gender parity in technology companies or departments. Key components include: A Blueprint for Sustained Increases in ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Team/Project Management
Supervising-in-a-Box helps establish supportive and effective relationships with a diverse range of employees. This box explores ways to reduce or remove unconscious bias, discriminatory practices, ...
Supervising-in-a-Box Series: Employee Development
Supervising-in-a-Box Series helps establish supportive and effective relationships with a diverse range of employees. This box explores ways to reduce or remove unconscious bias, discriminatory ...
Communicating for Change: Persuade Colleagues to Get on Board
Changing the culture of an organization to one that promotes women’s participation in computing requires that members reach new understandings and act in new ways. ...
Pipeline-in-a-Box: Promoting Advancement of CS/IT Students from Two-Year to Four-Year Institutions
Are you ready to transform the lives of community college students and diversify the computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) student body at four-year ...
How Can Companies Attract and Retain Mid-Career Female Employees?
Flexible work arrangements and career paths, along with re-entry training and support, can attract and retain mid-career female employees.
How Can Companies Promote Innovation with Diverse Employees?
Diverse work teams can improve innovation, problem-solving, and productivity. Learn how to implement the “The Action to Catalyze Tech (ACT) Report” recommendations: https://ncwit.org/CatalyzeTech.
Gearing Up for Change: Institutional Reform in Undergraduate Computing Programs
Change agents must understand and consider their organization’s complex and interlocking systems. Plans for change must ensure that subsystems work in harmony with each other ...
How Can You Re-Engineer Your Undergraduate Program to Increase Women’s Representation in Computing?
The socio-educational system a student experiences shapes participation in the major. Altering one element of that system is often not enough to create enduring change. ...
International Women’s Day-in-a-Box: Raising Awareness, Igniting Change
International Women’s Day-in-a-Box: Raising Awareness, Igniting Change is designed to help IT companies and departments celebrate successes and address barriers to women’s full participation in ...
How Can Companies Achieve Organizational Diversity?
Companies that establish organizational accountability for diversity, whether in the form of full-time diversity staff or a diversity task force, are more likely to increase ...
How Do Admissions Criteria Affect Women’s Representation in Graduate Computing?
When admission committee members minimize the biasing effects of stereotypes and consider applicants’ membership in an under-represented group as a positive characteristic, they promote diversity.