“Engineering Diversity” | Ellen Simmons | TEDxUniversityofGlasgow

This talk is about the importance of diversity in STEM both at university and in the workplace. Through her own experience, Ellen talks about the way diversity betters our lives and highlights it with examples from the discipline of engineering.
Despite her avid ability to construct IKEA furniture from a young age, Ellen did not know what an engineer was until she decided to go to university. Biomedical Engineering was an ideal career choice, and Ellen’s passion for her field motivated her to ensure other young girls would be aware of the options available for them across the engineering discipline.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@extrasupercrispi]

This is one of the very few talks on diversity that is worth listening to. Especially giving people at the very early stages of their career more information and perspectives does make sense!

[@jingqianliu7078]

This talk is very inconsistent and really fails to deliver the main message. The focus should be diversity instead of gender.

[@jeffheller4180]

Get out of engineering and into the everyday workforce.
Diversity is killing business! In my job I get to travel between a lot of failing companies, and just about every company I see that is failing is the result of one thing: hiring a less qualified person over a more qualified person, all for the sake of ‘diversity’.
What happens when you hire less qualified candidates over more qualified candidates, over and over and over?
Eventually productivity plummets, customer satisfaction drops, and labor costs end up at all time highs.
From the last dozen or so failing business I’ve seen, this has been the biggest problem at every single one of them! Along with hiring less-motivated ‘experienced’ workers, over highly motivated young people, but that’s a whole different issue.

[@Claydeexxx]

Wow 9% is a such a small number!! Somehow, it also happens to be the percentage of men in the nursing occupation, where the median wage is largely equivalent to that of an engineer. What is the point of this Ted Talk again?