Ericsson lags tech industry diversity, and still will with new goals
Ericsson released its annual diversity figures on Monday, revealing a workforce at the old-guard mobile telecom equipment company that in some ways is much less diverse than the younger tech firms...
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Pandora workforce is half women, but overwhelmingly white
The workforce diversity of music streaming service Pandora is an outlier in many ways compared to other tech companies that have recently released similar data. Nearly half of the company’s global...
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Indiegogo releases diversity numbers, encourages other startups to do the same
Indiegogo is the latest tech company to release internal diversity numbers, revealing a workforce that is nearly half women but with scant representation of blacks and Latinos. What’s perhaps more...
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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg featured in a comic book
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, will soon be featured in a comic book. “Female Force: Sheryl Sandberg” looks at how Sandberg became a successful businesswoman. It will be sold on...
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Intel pledges $300 million to create a more diverse workforce by 2020
Intel is making Silicon Valley’s largest and most ambitious commitment to diversifying its workforce by pledging $300 million toward hiring more women and people of color from underrepresented...
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Female engineer sues Twitter over ‘secretive’ promotional system that favors men
A female former Twitter employee has filed a class action lawsuit against the San Francisco social media giant, contending that the company’s “secretive” promotional system favors men. Engineer Tina...
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Rev. Jesse Jackson led prayer for Sheryl Sandberg
The Q&A portion of Facebook’s annual shareholders meeting Thursday was led with a prayer by Rev. Jesse Jackson, who offered his condolences to the company’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg....
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LinkedIn releases new gender diversity numbers
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner speaks at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) LinkedIn has been working on improving its gender diversity numbers, and this week...
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Apple hires more blacks and women than ever, but it’s not much more diverse
Apple may have hired more black, Latino and female employees in the last year than at any time in the company’s history, but the percentage of its employees who are from those underrepresented groups...
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Kleiner Perkins drops request; Pao will not pay legal costs
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers dropped its request for Ellen Pao to pay its legal costs, after she failed to convince a jury that the venture firm retaliated and discriminated against her,...
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