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Accenture pulls out all the stops to ensure gender diversity

Information technology (IT) services and consulting major, Accenture, has pulled all stops to ensure that gender diversity is maintained not only in the organisation, but also in the working population as a whole.

Companies Like Facebook Should Pay Attention To What’s Happening In Chicago

Many of the companies pushing the world into the future have two big things in common: They're mostly white and overwhelmingly run by men.

Politico Questions Motives of Tech Companies’ Donations for Diversity

Politico recently ran an article which seemed to call into question the motives of Silicon Valley companies including Apple and Microsoft, in donating millions of dollars to organizations dedicated to increasing the diversity in tech effort, including the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Congressional Black Caucus.

Tech Report Proposed to Solve Diversity Problem

If Donell Creech has his way, the next big thing to come out of the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) will be a fix to tech's diversity issues.

At SXSW, Tech’s Diversity Pipeline Problem Needs Center Stage – NBC News

Silicon Valley has a diversity problem - that much is clear. And with the technology industry descending on Austin, Texas for SXSW, trying to fix it is bound to be a focal point. To explain the lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the workforce, many technology companies point to a "pipeline" issue: There just aren't enough qualified underrepresented ethnic minority candidates to fill open positions, they say.

Under diversity pressure, tech courts minority groups in D.C.

Some of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies are quietly funneling money to minority groups in Washington, including those affiliated with black and Hispanic lawmakers — a move that comes as the firms face growing criticism about the lack of diversity in their workforce.