In the world, there is continued violence and prejudice against under-represented groups that undermine belonging and equality.

Airbnb Engineering strives to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Team members worked with employees from affected communities to address non-inclusive terminology in their codebase.

Airbnb wants to eliminate non-inclusive terminology. So they measured the usage of non-inclusive terminology in the code, then addressed the problem in two ways:

• Preventing new additions of these terms. They rolled out a linter to flag pull requests that introduce non-inclusive terms.