Facebook has taken another step towards embracing gender diversity. Along with its 58 gender options, users can now write in their own answers. The AP reports that Facebook released the news… Read more »
After all the news about a scarcity of women in the top management of companies (and in the ranks of engineers), here’s a bright spot: Half of the CIOs of Fortune 10 companies are… Read more »
Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s most popular business accelerator program for startups, released data to show it’s not discriminating against women, Hispanic and black founders when choosing what to fund. It sampled 5… Read more »
While people say that the like the idea of a diverse workforce, and evidence suggests that diverse teams perform better than homogeneous ones, but nonetheless, people report higher job satisfaction when… Read more »
In recent months, there’s been a spate of tech companies publishing their staff demographics. We’ve taken the liberty of turning all of them into pie charts — for gender — and… Read more »
Twitter picked a rather opportune moment to publish its horrifying staff diversity statistics: During Facebook’s quarter two earnings release. Read more »
Google has finally released its internal diversity numbers, showing a lack of female and minority representation — especially in its tech sector. Read more »
The social awkwardness that arises in groups when outsiders are introduced to established groups leads to more careful reasoning and improved group performance. Read more »
Britain’s tech community is fretting again over the dominance of young white men on the conference circuit. But events veteran Mel Kirk says that forcing diversity ignores the deep skews in… Read more »