Technology hasn’t always been the most diverse industry, and today it still needs more work, but progress has been made. More women are becoming engineers and programmers, and the landscape is shifting to compensate for the lack of equality. Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO at ThoughtWorks Inc.,...
Women of color can be particularly susceptible to putting in hard work while letting others take all the shine. But it's important for women to speak up and promote themselves, said Sandee Kastrul ⇒, president and co-founder of i.c. stars, a technology-based leadership and workforce development...
SAN FRANCISCO — Entrepreneur and diversity advocate Laura I. Gómez has raised $2 million for her 20-month-old recruiting software start-up Atipica, believed to be one of the largest seed funding rounds for a Silicon Valley technology company run by a Latina founder. The round is led...
Diversity and inclusion have found their way into tech lexicon, and into Slack groups, task forces, and think pieces. I’ve found myself at the center of many of these, and always come away wanting more. Wanting to make an impact beyond a single conversation, wanting...
Entrepreneur and coder Felecia Hatcher has a mission: to get minority communities more involved in innovation. Hatcher is working to bring diversity into the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Though she’s only 33 years old, Hatcher’s work has already attracted the attention of the...