Diversity
Ames v. Ohio should be an easy — and potentially unanimously decided — case, assuming the Court doesn’t overreach.
Bradley Cooper’s turn as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro is just the latest role to stoke conversations about what Jewish representation means in Hollywood.
Voters are sending the highest number of Latino lawmakers to Congress ever, and increasing ideological diversity along with it.
Companies promised to make their boards more diverse. Here’s how to actually do it.
That’s bad, but it’s better than it used to be.
Meet a stealth investment firm run by Robbie Robinson, who advises the former president.
Timnit Gebru says she was pushed out of the company; now some are worried it will have a chilling effect on academics in tech.
Biden wants his administration to “look like America.” His transition team is a start.
Stitch Fix’s Mike Smith is leaving the online apparel retailer.
The popular brand built its progressive ethos through a game that encouraged ironic bigotry. Now, it faces a reckoning.
A social media campaign shows whose stories publishers value — and whose they’re willing to pay for.
How title inflation in Silicon Valley hurts diversity efforts.
“What demographic group you’re a part of has no direct correlation with your talent.”
Demographics will determine who gets hit worst by automation. Policy will help curb the damage.
Amazon fashion group leader Christine Beauchamp and Amazon advertising executive Colleen Aubrey are now two of three women on the “S-team.”
Originally designed as an IRL space for women and nonbinary people, The Wing is now thinking about what services it can provide its members online, CEO Audrey Gelman says.
Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt, the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, says Nextdoor reduced racial profiling by 75 percent by introducing a tiny bit of friction for users.
It’s the third time in recent months an outside group has severed ties with Palantir over its controversial work for ICE.
Still no Republicans have signed on.
It’s been five years since tech companies began releasing diversity reports. Not much has changed.
“We may have to just throw our hands up and say, ‘Instead of continuing to try to change the establishment, let’s make our own establishment.’”
Also: What Lauren Hill can teach us about sexual conflict.
On the latest Recode Decode, Kapor Klein says we need to “take a deep hard look at the BS notion of meritocracy.”
There is little oversight of the algorithms that help the city decide who gets watched by police, where kids go to school, and in what neighborhoods fire stations are placed.
Yellin is trying to use her Instagram feed to offer people video news “without a panic attack.”
The new CEO of All Raise, Pam Kostka, will have to keep attention on a problem that some in Silicon Valley want to slink away from.
AI Now Institute founders Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker explain everything you need to know on the latest Recode Decode.
Paying women less will cost tech companies plenty.
“Aging is not a disease, otherwise living would be a disease, but you can’t make money off satisfaction,” Applewhite says.
Hamilton and Davis spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher at South By Southwest earlier this month.
In tech’s capital, even programmers with six-figure salaries are struggling to afford studio apartments.
Haddock’s company won an innovation award from CES — but then the trade group decided that her work was “profane.”
Starbucks executive Rosalind Brewer is the fourth female director on Amazon’s board.
What if startups chose for themselves who should get money? Would they back more female founders?
Hobson is one of the most prominent black women in finance, and she’s not happy with how her industry is doing.
On Pivot, NYU’s Scott Galloway talks with his colleague, the co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind.
Venture capitalists spent 2018 welcoming women to the fold, but the welcome has been fitful, uneven and, scariest of all, tentative.
On this episode of Recode Decode, Tynan talks about overcoming investors’ skepticism in order to start her online framing company.
Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself? And other tough questions.
Traister explains why women’s anger is having a resurgence and how to keep yourself from getting burned out.