What's the problem?

Kronda Adair writes about anger in social justice work--not as a harmful side effect, but as the primary driver of this work. 

This article from Harvard Business Review by Todd L. Pittinsky posits that traditional diversity arguments have not convinced Silicon Valley about diversity's value because Silicon Valley is among the most innovative in technology while remaining the least diverse.

This article from McKinsey & Company by Vivian Hunt reports on the research which says that companies with greater diversity have greater financial returns.

This article by Shana Lebowitz describes the results of a MIT and Georgetown study which found that, despite being happier when working with people of the same gender, gender-diverse teams were more productive.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Melinda Marshall, and Laura Sherbin provide an overview of the research which shows evidence that diversity unlocks innovation.

Researchers find software repository GitHub approved code written by women at a higher rate than code written by men, but only if the gender was not disclosed.

This is a blog post by Ciara Byrne is about the difficulties of being female in tech.

Glenn Gillen's November 30, 2013 thoughts on the potential problems with meritocracy.

This short radio segment/article discusses the systemic reasons the computer science world saw a drop in female programmers in 1984.

Ashe Dryden's excellent talk about diversity at DrupalCon NA 2013.

See also the recording at https://www.ashedryden.com/drupalcon-portland-programming-diversity