{"id":13442,"date":"2015-03-19T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/heres-how-it-went-down-schmidt-isaacson-and\/"},"modified":"2015-03-19T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:36:08","slug":"heres-how-it-went-down-schmidt-isaacson-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/heres-how-it-went-down-schmidt-isaacson-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here\u2019s how it went down: Schmidt, Isaacson and Smith were onstage together for a panel called \u201cHow Innovation Happens.\u201d One of the recurring themes of their hourlong talk was diversity in tech, and how the U.S. government and companies like Google can get more women and minorities involved.<\/p>\n

Both men interrupted Smith several times \u2014 not unusual for moderated panels \u2014 but Williams felt it was particularly poignant given the day\u2019s topic of diversity. During a Q&A session with the audience, Williams, who is Google\u2019s Global Diversity and Talent Programs manager, asked both men if they thought their interruptions were a sign of the unconscious bias they themselves had been talking about.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven that unconscious bias research tells us that women are interrupted a lot more than men, I\u2019m wondering if you are aware that you have interrupted Megan many more times,\u201d she asked, which immediately prompted a round of cheers and applause from the packed room.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Google chairman gets called out for cutting off a woman while talking about diversity<\/a> (via iamdanw<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s how it went down: Schmidt, Isaacson and Smith were onstage together for a panel called \u201cHow Innovation Happens.\u201d One of the recurring themes of their hourlong talk was diversity in tech, and how the U.S. government and companies like Google can get more women and minorities involved. Both men interrupted Smith several times \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3uO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}