What is Nashville doing to bring more women and minorities into its software development community? Whatever the answer, it could be more. "No matter what I list on my bullet list of things that the city is doing well, the answer is — it's not enough,"...
That's according to Leslie Miley, Slack's head of engineering, who addressed a crowd at the Tech Inclusion conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. He called Facebook's efforts to improve diversity "insulting." Hundreds of people assembled to listen and provide solutions for changing a technology culture...
Kimberly Bryant worked in medicine and technology for more than two decades and observed so little advancement in diversity that in 2011, she launched Black Girls Code, a nonprofit organization committed to educating girls of color within STEM fields. Bryant’s work with BGC has already...
A startup in Silicon Valley is challenging conventional hiring practices in the white, male-dominated world of tech by giving coders a platform to be tested on their raw talent. San Francisco-based CodeFights offers a gamified coding platform for job-seeking programmers to reach recruiters by performing well—but...
It’s not much of a secret that women are underrepresented in the tech industry — its lack of diversity has become notorious over the years. According to the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), women represented a mere 15% of computer science bachelor’s...