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23 Oct Diversity 2.0: Tech Companies Rewrite Internal Hiring Code

The Grace Hopper Celebration demonstrated many women find exciting careers in computer science. But as all participants agreed, there's still a lot of work ahead to level the field and crack the glass ceiling.

21 Oct When diversity is exclusive

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to diversity in technology. Despite tech company rhetoric, some people feel they're not represented.

20 Oct Airbnb pledges to hire diversity head, says ‘We’re determined to do better’

Today Airbnb revealed diversity statistics for its global staff, following a trend initiated by Google to publicly share this information.

20 Oct The tech industry’s “diversity” focus favors one group over pretty much any other

I can’t fully remember when I first recognized that something to do with tech “diversity” efforts were a bit… off. I think it was during the first Women Techmakers Summit. It was early 2014, and Google put on this relatively large conference at the Mountain View campus for to celebrate International Women’s Day. I remember being impressed at the scale, while also thinking that Google had never done anything approaching that for Black History Month. The bones the black folks were thrown were some changes in the menus and some one-off events the Black Googler Network put together.