FEMALE SPEAKER: Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Want to give you a few words about what
we're doing with this day.
And just so you know, there's events
like this happening across the globe at different Google
locations.
So this is just one of the big conversations we're having.
There's another in Mountain View,
and then there's a whole bunch of local conversations
that are happening today everywhere.
But for International Women's Day, what we want to celebrate
is raising the visibility of technical women, recognizing
and celebrating their contributions,
and then also expanding the network of women in tech.
And we know that there are fewer women taking CS,
that there are fewer women in the CS pipeline,
and that's something we're really dedicated to changing
here at Google because we really see
not only wanting to grow and keep the talent we have here
but also helping to change the environment for women
in technology overall.
Hey, all right.
This is actually working.
So diversity, something I do every day.
Just a little bit about diversity at Google-- we really
prize diversity because we feel that we can't truly understand
the experience of our user if we ourselves
are not as diverse as the users that we have.
And so we all know how diverse Google's users
are by the faces in this room and by everyone
that you're related to and know who also uses Google.
And so we need to reflect that.
We need to know that we are really representing
the needs, the desires of our user.
So to do that, we're looking at diversity
in the work environment.
Diversity's been part of the conversation at Google
since the beginning.
It's something we have always talked about,
we have always focused on, we have always
been conscious about.
One of the things that we have been doing recently
to continue this conversation around diversity
is work on unconscious bias.
We know that we all-- everybody have biases.
And so we've been talking to our Googlers
about the science of this, making
them aware of what unconscious bias is
and the impact that it has.
To date, 20,000 Googlers have gone through that training,
and it's a continuing conversation
that we're having all the time to make sure
that this is the most inclusive work environment
that we can have.
We also want diversity in the future of what we create,
from a technology perspective.
And so our education, our scholarship plans,
are really investing in the future of technology.
We have Generation Google scholarships
which look to help high school seniors and undergrads continue
their CS and technical studies.
We work very closely with Anita Borg Institute
on all of their efforts around technology
and around promoting more women in technology.
And then we want diversity on the web and in our products.
So we really want to make the web work for everyone,
and we're trying to make our products more
accessible for small businesses, for different groups globally.
So one program is Women on the Web, which
is to increase women's participation in our Google
business groups and drive technology-enabled
entrepreneurship opportunities, and then also help women become
successful by leveraging the power of the internet.
So we're really looking at diversity
from all these multifaceted perspectives
to make sure it's happening internally, externally,
and that we're growing the pipeline as we're doing that.
So we really know that women in the workplace matter.
And research shows that when we have more diversity,
we come back with better ideas.
McKinsey has done work on this showing
that when there are women and men--
but when we have more equal numbers of women
in top management, they see a greater return
on their equity and their earnings.
Catalyst has done work to show that if you
have three women on a board, it radically
shifts how that board interacts, how they make decisions, what
the outcomes are for that company.
We know that having more diversity
means we have better collective intelligence.
And today, we're talking about it from a gender perspective,
but we're thinking about that broadly too,
from an age perspective, from race, ethnicity,
from sexual orientation-- all of those pieces come together.
Any kind of diversity really does impact
and increase the collective intelligence of the group.
And also, we see that there's economic impacts, right?
We see that when we get those better products out there,
we get a better return, and that's certainly important.
And then last but not least, right, hearts and minds.
It's the right thing to do.
We have an increasingly diverse workforce coming in.
We know that women are graduating
at higher rates than men from colleges.
And so we have to always be making sure
that we're on the cutting edge of getting the best talent here
at Google and making sure that we're representing
the talent that's coming in and the talent that is out there.
So we are hiring phenomenal women.
And not that this is just a little plug-- we are hiring.
You should apply.
Just saying.
It's a great place to work.
But you don't have to.
But you should.
You should.
No pressure.
We'll just keep saying it throughout the day.
So our goal is to really change the world.
And I'll tell you a few other things that we're doing.
We are looking a K through 12.
We have a very robust program.
We have the RISE Awards and women at Google
that are working to encourage more girls
to move into computer science.
We see that some of the biggest impacts on getting girls
into computer science is seeing that there
are other women in computer science
and having them talk about their experiences.
So we make sure that that's something
we're consistently doing.
Again, we have the university scholarships
through Anita Borg.
We also have Google Get a Job, which
is helping women to study more in CS.
So we're really making sure that we're
bringing that possible talent into our sphere.
We know that when people actually do
come to interview here and when you come to interview here--
just saying-- that it makes an impact if you
have an interviewer who is female.
So we make sure in all of our interviews
that we have female interviewers interviewing our candidates
so that there is that more diverse view from the candidate
perspective.
We also want to make sure that there
are networking opportunities.
And so we have very, very robust communities and networks
within Google.
Our Women@Google has over 4,000 members.
It's very, very active.
We have other groups for women in tech.
So we're really making sure that the communities,
that the networking for women, and for women with men,
are very robust and very active.
Now I get to show you a fun video.
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How cool is that, right?
You can clap.
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OK.
Get this-- there we go.
OK.
Hey, there we go.
So this is our wonderful agenda today.
We're going to be hearing from some really fantastic women
technologists who are going to talk
about different aspects of their work
or talk about being a woman in tech.
And we want to encourage these to be really interactive,
so the speakers are going to speak,
and then there will be time for questions at the end of each.
Just a note-- if you're going to ask a question,
come up to the mike so we can hear you.
And we'll just always be reminding you of that as well.
We will feed you lunch.
That's nice of us.
And so we will at lunch have some fun activities
to do as well.
And then at the end of the day, there's
a really cool reception, and we have these cool little Spiro
balls which I'm just--
AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE SPEAKER: Right?
AUDIENCE: They're awesome.
FEMALE SPEAKER: I know, right?
I know.
I just learned about them.
And the fact that I could potentially program something
is kind of amazing.
So we'll be able to play with those at the reception.
So if that doesn't keep you here,
we'll think of something else.
But that should keep you here.
I'm just saying.
Just to give you a sense of the other events going
on globally-- pretty amazing, and, frankly,
really impressive.
We had a lot of people who were super excited about this day
and super excited to put on different events.
And so we're excited that you're a part of the New York event.