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 »
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 »
Men now make up a third of Pinterest’s new signups. It’s an important development that shows the social network can appeal to the public at large. Read more »
MongoDB Vice Chairman and former CEO came on the Structure Show this week to talk about the company’s future, and how life has been since stepping down from the leadership role… 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 »
Inequality in engineering isn’t just a product of how few women are in the profession: the tasks women perform within engineering are relevant, too. Deep-rooted ideologies also contribute to a gender… Read more »
According to the survey, some of the stereotypical characteristics of app developers are true; others are not. For example, the survey determined that 94 percent of app developers are male. Read more »