TL;DR: Ok, there is a video on gvSIG Festival on diversity that cover most of the contents here.
Why do we need inclusivity and diversity?
Do we really need to explain the problem of diversity? IT is mainly white and male. Even the most egalitarian person have biases due to have lived on a non egalitarian world and this reflects on our community. There are also society pressure to some groups of persons not to work on IT.
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
Martin Luther King
In short, diversity should just be a matter of Social Justice.
But if you are looking for more purely economical reasons, recent studies have shown that diverse teams are more efficient and provide more quality outputs [1][2]. This means that even when a company invest explicitly on improve their inclusivity and diversity, the return of investment is usually high. Investing in diversity is a win win situation, but it requires some deconstruction and some effort from all the people involved.
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