Summary of the 2nd Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering (GE 2019)

Abstract
The 2nd Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering was a continuation of the first workshop with a goal to increase awareness of gender-related challenges in Software Engineering community. Further the workshop's goals were to illuminate the problem in a variety of contexts, evaluate proposed solutions, discuss approaches to move towards gender equality, and to develop a community to support meaningful change in gender equality in software engineering. In its second year, the workshop featured a keynote from ACM-W president Jodi Tims, ten papers, two posters on work-in-progress, and a fivemember panel. Jodi Tims presented principles and best practices of work to improve the gender balance. Paper topics focused on gender in computer science in a variety of domains, including in education, parenting, and industry, and on creating inclusive environments, including in open source. The panel discussed particularly difficult challenges-including the potential bias of data that is used by artificial intelligence to make decisions-and how aggressive institutions can be to make meaningful change. Thirty-eight people from seventeen countries participated in the workshop, and even more people were reached via Twitter.