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Simple Ways Tech Companies Can Fight Gender Inequality

Simple Ways Tech Companies Can Fight Gender Inequality

by The Daily Eye Team October 19 2015, 3:56 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 48 secs

With Intel’s recent move to promote better hiring practices, many tech companies have begun to take a harder look at issues of diversity in the workplace. At the VMwomen Panel, Renee Zaugg, VP of IT Infrastructure and Application Development at Aetna, Inc., spoke to a packed audience of both men and women about how to make sure people of all genders have equal opportunities at work. In an interview with Jeff Frick, cohost of the CUBE, from the Silicon ANGLE Media team, Zaugg brought up the importance of intentionality in improving gender inequality, saying that unequal treatment is frequently not on purpose or even recognized. “No one does that intentionally,” she said. “It’s in our fabric of how we grew up and how our preferences are, and it’s so easy to sit back and do what you’re used to versus doing something uncomfortable.”

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