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Cisco’s Latest Diversity Stats Show Little Progress For Women or Minorities

The networking giant been releasing its diversity numbers for a decade, but change has been slow.

Tech has a diversity problem, and that problem is culture

I've heard it before and so have you. We need more women in tech. We need more minority engineers. Everyone from Jesse Jackson and even President Obama has made a call for more inclusive policies in tech companies. But it still hasn't happened. You need only look at the recent numbers released by Google, Facebook and Apple to see that white men still top the charts when it comes to their employee count. It all seems hopeless. Leslie Miley, who was the only black engineer in a leadership position at Twitter up until a couple of weeks ago, must have felt so too. In a blog post on Medium, he explained that he left the company because he felt defeated in his efforts in trying to increase and encourage company diversity. The problem: Culture.

Diversity in Tech: Obama’s TechHire Kicks Into Gear With $100M Grant Competition

As big Silicon Valley firms up their efforts to diversify their mostly white, male workforces, the Obama administration's TechHire initiative has begun taking applications for grants from a $100 million fund to help boost the development of IT skills in overlooked communities.

Tech boards still lag when it comes to gender diversity

Only 18.3% of board members at publicly traded technology companies are women, according to a new study by Equilar. It's an increase from 2010 -- when it was just 13.7% -- but still makes tech the second-lowest ranked industry, behind only the basic materials sector.

TECH’S BIG GENDER DIVERSITY PUSH, ONE YEAR IN

"This is the best room in the world!" Hilary Mason, the founder of data and machine learning R&D group Fast Forward Labs, yells enthusiastically as she walks on stage at the Anita Borg Institute’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing.