Tech Talk
01 Dec Tech community facing an ethnic diversity problem
Working in Toronto’s tech community for the past five years, Saadia Muzaffar has overheard racist jokes only to be told, “I didn’t mean all brown people – you’re cool.” Born and raised in Pakistan, the 38-year-old entrepreneur has been told it’s a good thing she doesn’t have an accent – in other words, it’s a good thing she sounds white.
30 Nov 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.
27 Nov 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.
25 Nov 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.