How Airbnb’s Data Science Team Doubled The Ratio Of Female Employees Last Year 

So, coming into 2015, Newman and Airbnb Data Science Manager Elena Grewal started thinking more about gender diversity in data science. It was just one dimension of many aspects of diversity Airbnb especially wanted to become more mindful about, Newman said.

The team did this by analyzing the equal employment opportunity commission data in Airbnb’s recruiting tool, Greenhouse, to better understand the diversity of the team’s applicants. In that process, the team noticed that they were getting a lot of female applicants, but they weren’t converting those applicants into actual hires.