Diversity & inclusion

🎈Articles to read

  • Building a Diversity and Inclusion Program from Scratch Webinar
  • The Diversity and Inclusion Handbook
  • Lever's Diversity and Inclusion Website Page + Blog Series links

📺To watch

  •  https://www.ted.com/playlists/670/a_blueprint_for_diversity_in_the_workplace 

👏🏽 Good examples of companies with diversity

  • Lever: 50:50 gender balance and recently won awards for best workplace in the bay area and best workplace for D&I.
  • @Hannah Mirza to find concrete good examples:  https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/how-slack-got-ahead-in-diversity/558806/ 
  •  https://www.greatplacetowork.com/best-workplaces/diversity/2017 
  •  http://fortune.com/best-workplaces-for-diversity/ 

👏🏽 Good ideas we want to follow/ we would like to have at one point:

  • Recruitment: Lever candidate experience where you can feel the diversity and kindness through
  • Gender equality: paternity leave paid
  • Daily practice: trainings the managers in practice (end of the notion note)
  • Communication: more implication in diversity outside of work:
  • black girls code
  • lesbian and allies in tech

⁉️ How we do it at MadKudu:



📍Recruitment:

  • When we open a new position: we do not only leverage our network, but we do hunting without any criterias except the technical ones
  • We carefully reffers at "he" and "she" in every page we publish and offer we make or document we have internally
  • We work on subtle language differences: for example, when you describe a position as "managing a team", you increase the number of male applicants. For "developing a team", it increases the number of female applicants. But leading a team is more gender neutral, helping you get the largest, most balanced and most qualified set of applicants for your open role.
  • Hiresweet: reach out to more women (they provided 0,5% women when we started)
  • Website: picture of our CEO Sam with his Family to express and provide work/life balance
  • Website: a picture of the team with diversity so people can see themselves (gender diversity, skin color diversity, ...)


��Gender equality:

  • Maternity & Paternity leave payed 100% by MadKudu, on top of the healthcare
  • A good healthcare for both men and women
  • Hygienical needs/ supplys for men and women in the bathrooms


📍Office/ daily practice

  • We're an American company so english is the official language. Everything we say or write as to be en English. French is ok only when 2 French ppl are in a room.
  • We carefully reffer at "he" and "she" in every page we publish and document we have internally/ externally
  • Women need/ as human need: sanitary pads/ tampons in the bathroom: there is a shopping list and 1 person to do the shopping so it's normal
  • When going to a retreat, we do an open list of "dietary restrictions" so people can add all their food restrictions
  • Wording/ Slack bot for better suggestions:  https://madkudu.slack.com/customize/slackbot 
  • “Guys” is not gender neutral. “The ”universal male” (i.e., using “guys” to mean “people”) assumes that the normal, default human being is male. “Although “he” and “man” are said to be neutral, numerous studies show that these words cause people specifically to think of males.
  • guys/ folk, wife —> "my significant other" or "my better half"


📍Asumption/ how do we keep an eye on it

  • We have ambassadors for important topics:
  • Diversity: @Hannah Mirza
  • Values
  • MV office wellness
  • Paris office wellness: @Fanny Flg
  • Charity: @Paul Cothenet



📍Conferences to go to learn and represent MadKudu:

  •  https://lesbianswhotech.org/sanfrancisco2019/ 


👉🏽Trainings (for Fanny)

  •  https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2018/10/11/the-10-most-diverse-companies-of-2018/#5c5724551404 
  • Workplace Cultural Diversity Training Topics:
  • Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action and Diversity
  • Understanding and Managing Unconscious and Conscious Biases
  • Acceptance versus Assimilation
  • The Power of Respectful Language
  • The Importance of A Positive Cultural Identity
  • Dignity and Civility in the Workplace
  • Political Correctness and Language Diversity
  • Defining Identity and Identity Conflicts
  • Intersectionality and Invisibile Disabilities
  • Power and Inequality