McKinsey & Company | Women in STEM: Building diverse teams

For week two of our #WomenInSTEM video series, we spoke to five women leaders across STEM fields and geographies about building diverse teams. Learn more on the New at McKinsey Blog: https://mck.co/3kwXzTv #McKWomenInSTEM

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I've also been very deliberate about, you know, highlighting that I do want to have a certain mix in terms of diversity within my team, whether it's gender, whether it's orientation, and whether it's, you know, ethnicity, those are really critical and important.

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The real risk is not becoming a founder. If you do have a Facebook or Google inside you somewhere, the real risk is not trying.

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Next to the CEO, all the secretaries came there with a cake, and they all clapped because this was a first woman that had ever sat on the corner of that amount.

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You have these girls that are interested in STEM, but then if there's no demonstration of the art of what's possible, some of those stereotypes come into the picture and they say, No, I don't want to sit in a basement coding all day.

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80% of the seats are occupied by women. And our only criteria is distinctive capabilities and potential.

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