SAN FRANCISCO — The growing effort to get more African Americans and Hispanics to join tech companies or start their own is hitting the road, pushing beyond Silicon Valley into the rest of the nation. Google is backing a new pilot program from CODE2040 in three...
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What’s Andrea Hoffman, a self-professed "nice Jewish girl from Queens" who spent the early part of her career working in advertising know about diversity in tech? It all began around 1999, when Hoffman was working on the agency side for the Mercedes-Benz account. She remembers sitting...
Often criticized in the past as well-intentioned but stagnant, corporate diversity departments at major organizations have never been so visible. With Google yesterday pledging a substantial sum to Code2040, a nonprofit fostering diversity in Technology, and several key players in Silicon Valley publishing their lackluster...
At the tech giant, only 23% of the staff are women, but management is addressing talent drain from the top down. Padmasree Warrior loves high heels. Yet as an engineer just starting out in her career, she ditched the heels for more modest shoes. The technologist...