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17 Feb

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., helped found the Diversifying Technology Caucus, which aims to get more women and minorities into STEM fields. Despite significant strides to improve equality in business and education, women and minorities still lag significantly behind their white male colleagues in science, technology, engineering and math fields. Lawmakers and representatives from the technology industry gathered Monday on Capitol Hill to launch a new bipartisan caucus to address those issues head-on, encouraging more women and minorities to get into STEM fields and to promote equal opportunities for them.
09:00 / Diversity / News / Tech Talk
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16 Feb

Large job cuts across the high-tech sector in the U.S. last year seem to have been confined to below the 49th parallel, according to Victoria’s technology insiders. The local tech scene maintains it is still riding high. Last year, the Victoria Advanced Technology Council released a study showing the industry’s annual revenue had grown to $3.15 billion with an economic impact of about $4 billion and employing about 20,000.
09:21 / Diversity / News
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14 Feb

In the last few months roughly 20 tech companies broke with traditional silences around data transparency, publicly releasing their diversity demographics. Before then, a few companies, such as Intel, had been releasing their company-wide equal opportunity data for quite some time. But until last year, few, if any, companies had revealed their demographic data for technical occupations, in particular.
09:00 / Diversity / News / Tech Talk
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13 Feb

For one of the most innovative and progressive industries, technology is having a tough time fixing its diversity problem. Many major tech companies have decided not to publicly display their minority statistics, but some tech giants are beginning to open up about the absence of people of color and women in their offices. Earlier this month, Microsoft released its EEO-1 form, a federal filing that outlines employment data by race and gender. The results weren’t pretty. The company is 60 percent white and 71 percent male, according to a Jan. 5 Fortune.com article.
09:00 / Diversity / News / Tech Talk
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12 Feb

Let's be clear about one thing from the start: I'm a Black female with a Ph.D. in computer science. No shade, Sheryl Sandberg, but I've been "leaning in" since birth. This topic (and blog post) has been a long time coming. I wasn't sure, at first, how to best put my thoughts to words. Then I wasn't even sure if I should say anything at all, since it may ruffle some feathers. In the end, I didn't care. Some things need to be said. Most people think it, but few say it. I'll take one for the team.
09:03 / Diversity / News / Tech Talk
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