Freshly appointed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was fairly new to the national spotlight when he took the stage at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing event in October. That's when he suggested women shouldn't ask for raises, but rather "have faith in the system." Needless...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson spent most of this year pressuring the technology industry into facing up to the glaring scarcity of women, blacks and Latinos at companies renowned as great places to work. Now comes Diversity 2.0 -- finding ways to reverse...
Silicon Valley’s engineers are using homegrown technology to fix their industry’s lack of diversity, honing software to find, recruit and retain women and minorities. Entelo Inc., Gild Inc., Piazza Technologies Inc., and newer startups such as Textio and PowerToFly Inc. are collecting data, analyzing information and...
The adventure of new ventures. When it comes to hiring, Silicon Valley has long been a bastion for white and Asian men. In fact, at several of the world’s most well-known tech companies, including Google, Apple, Yahoo and Facebook, women account for fewer than one in...
BLUE1647, a tech incubator and learning lab in Pilsen, announced Wednesday that it has parented with Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Rainbow PUSH organization to increase tech diversity nationwide with educational training and pipeline programs. The alliance, called the PUSH Excel/Blue1647 Technology Partnership, will establish a pipeline...
Santa Clara, Calif. • Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson spent most of this year pressuring the technology industry into facing up to the glaring scarcity of women, blacks and Latinos at companies renowned as great places to work. Now comes Diversity 2.0 — finding ways to...