How do you create a more diverse tech industry with greater numbers of empowered women? According to Debbie Forster, you stop talking about it and take action by engaging companies to recruit women to tech, collect data, and share best practices. Debbie co-founded Tech Talent Charter which now includes 300 organizations of all sizes and sectors intent on achieving greater diversity. Best practices allow these organizations to learn from one another and improve the diversity of their workplaces. Sectors represented include companies from entertainment, traditional tech, engineering companies, and government. Tech Talent Charter also works in partnership with the Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport which provided initial seed funding and helps recruit signatories. In 2019, many of these companies are focused on retraining programs, conversion programs, and other efforts to persuade women to reconsider pursuing tech careers. These companies are making concerted efforts to be positive, professional, welcoming, and inclusive workplaces. 

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