Have you heard this term in your office " double bind "? I bet you haven't - do you even have a clue as to it's meaning? Since the majority of my readers are male - I can safely bet that the overwhelming number has no clue. I've never heard it, I confess. After reading about the term and a study at BYU on why women don't speak up in groups... well I have a sense of the double bind. An observational sense - not a first-hand experience of the double bind. Our industry - software development - has a problem. The Agile movement with it's lofty goal of improving the work life for developers could have addressed this problem. Over the last 19 years ( Agile Manifesto c. 2001 ) I've seen little movement in the needle of women in SW Dev (STEM Stats - 15 %). Could the alliance moved that needle.... it is one of their initiatives . One in 18 Trillion I use to have a goal, no objective, no a rule... to have at least one female on each team. ...