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By Michael Nam Photo by Shutterstock A new report released by the Ascend Foundation, a Pan-Asian non-profit advocacy group, described another aspect of Silicon Valley’s well-documented issues with diversity. Asians nearly equal whites in staff roles in the five major tech companies that were researched but hit a “glass ceiling”…
By Michael Nam Photo by Shutterstock Studies have shown what women have been saying for some time: sexism is often hidden, and multiple high profile gaffes have illustrated this point. Men interrupting women, policing the language and tone of women and condescendingly explaining things to women, as opposed to explicitly…
Update (3/30/2016): Additional statements by Rev. Jesse Jackson added to the story By Michael Nam “We don’t want to just increase the number of American students in STEM,” President Obama explained during the 2015 White House Science Fair on Monday. “We want to make sure everybody’s involved. We want to…
By Julissa Catalan In mid-December, Microsoft released its diversity statisticsbut it did not publicize the release. Perhaps this is because the results not only reinforced CEO Satya Nadella’s recent comments about women in the workforce, but also because the company’s demographics are right in line with every other tech company….
By Chris Hoenig It’s a well-known fact: Hollywood is just as bad as the tech industry when it comes to diversity. And now, thanks to some tech troubles, there’s more proof of just how bad it is. For more than a week, Sony Pictures has been the victim of a…
By Albert Lin Amazon became the latest technology giant to release its workforce demographic data, and the results, unsurprisingly, are not impressive. Overall, the company’s global workforce of nearly 150,000 is 37 percent women, with women making up just 25 percent of managers. In the United States, Amazon’s workforce is…
By Albert Lin Apple CEO Tim Cook finally acknowledged an open secret when he came out as a gay man in a first-person piece for Bloomberg Businessweek. “While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven’t publicly acknowledged it either, until now,” he wrote. “So let me be clear: I’m…
The stunning lack of diversity in the tech industry is no secret; Silicon Valley’s major players have been trying to keep it under wraps for years, going as far as filing lawsuits to prevent the release of their EEO-1 data. This year, the truths finally started to trickle out. Yahoo!,…
By Julissa Catalan Photo by Shutterstock New analysis by USA Today is contradicting what many technology companies have been telling us in defense of their (lack of) diversity dataa shortage in Black and Latino job seekers within the tech industry is not the reason for the demographics in Silicon Valley…
What do you do if you have a Satya Nadella moment You said what you mean, but then have to backpedal because what you believe is completely unpalatable. If you haven’t seen it yet, Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, said at a conference celebrating women in engineering, “It’s not really about…
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