Diversity
It’s still mostly white, mostly male.
It’s a real mistake to assume that “old” and “tech” are opposites.
Also, doing more for diversity isn’t just a moral question.
“When I go home to Detroit, there are people who don’t know they can become the CEO of a tech company.”
Apple’s HR chief says even companies that value diversity face challenges in a male-dominated field.
Walker’s six values for disrupting health and beauty: “Courage, inspiration, respect, judgment, wellness and loyalty.”
But what about the rest of the world outside of our bubble?
“I have been ‘the only’ for most of my career.”
Non-core businesses were a definite theme throughout the earnings reported over the last couple of weeks.
Roughly 90 percent of Facebook’s U.S. employees are either white or Asian.
Black tech worker Justin Edmund sounded off in a Medium essay.
The pledge comes ahead of a global entrepreneurship summit taking place this week in Silicon Valley.
The numbers aren’t improving. Could it be because men just do a better job? Not according to the research.
The move comes after the CEO scheduled, and then cancelled, a Bay Area fundraiser for Trump.
Sources say there is dismay within the ranks of a company that has been at the forefront of efforts to boost tech industry diversity.
She asked herself: Where are the faces like mine?
“It’s not like we’ve solved the diversity problem, but we do need to kind of keep the needle pushing forward.”
Project Include will focus on providing information on making hiring more inclusive, improving retention and examining bias in the workplace.
For the second time, economic pressure from Salesforce and others forces a state to walk back anti-LGBT legislation.
“Startups copy what good companies do because they think it contributes to success. ... If you’re going to copy, copy the really important stuff like a diverse workforce.”
The cable sports network’s quarterback comes to the Code/Media stage.
“Shame on the rest of the press media.”
A pair of Bay Area programs look to give people from underrepresented groups new pathways into the tech industry.
How paid parental leave could solve the culinary gender gap.
Start that conversation today. Don’t wait until tomorrow when they’re on their way out.
“Each woman I talked to had some set of stories they wanted to share. The guys didn’t.”
“If you can’t see it, you can’t be it,” says Christina Morillo, VP of technology and information risk at Morgan Stanley.
Pinterest wants to be less white, less male.
As the former manager of journalism and news at Twitter and someone who fought for internal diversity, I am dismayed.
“The open-mindedness, tolerance, and acceptance of new Americans is one of the country’s greatest strengths,” he wrote.
What will it take to make the number on women’s paychecks bigger? Nothing short of white-hat hacking, I fear.
“I don’t want to do something that I’ve done before.”
In the Lenny Letter, Pao explains why “just ignore it” doesn’t help.
Twitter’s board wont look like Twitter’s board for long.
Twitter responded to a former employee’s criticism Thursday night.
Twitter as a platform has empowered underserved and underrepresented people. But for some at Twitter, diversity is an obstruction to avoid.
“There was very little diversity in thought and almost no diversity in action.”
Jarrett talks gun control, diversity in tech and more.
Porat also talked financial crisis, Alphabet transition and diversity in tech.