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All about Diversity and Inclusion

By Laura Grantham

Pam Hart
I’m every employer’s dream “diversity hire,” and it’s the worst
Fast Company - Rich Bellis
A black Korean lesbian tech worker on how to end tokenistic recruiting and build a diverse hiring process that’s driven by values, not numbers. Black? Check. Korean? Female? Check, check. Lesbian? Check.
Jul 9, 2018
Pam Hart
How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity
The Atlantic - Jessica Nordell
Slack has been outperforming other Silicon Valley companies when it comes to minority employees, according to the organization’s latest diversity report. Last week, Slack, the company whose popular, plaid-themed
Apr 26, 2018
Pam Hart
Dear Prince Charles, do you think my brown skin makes me unBritish?
The Guardian - Anita Sethi
The Prince of Wales told me I don’t look like I’m from Manchester. If this is how he thinks, he shouldn’t be the next head of the Commonwealth I met Prince Charles this week at the Commonwealth People’s
Apr 19, 2018
Pam Hart
Thoughts on Gender and Radical Candor
firstround.com
Management expert Kim Scott builds on her argument for 'Radical Candor' by looking at the challenges of giving and receiving feedback through a …
Mar 9, 2016
Pam Hart
Some great ideas on how to support Women in Tech!
Right Here, Right Now: 27 Simple Actions to Support Women in Tech
newco.co - By cassie-divine
Aug 28, 2018
Pam Hart
Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse
Harvard Business Review - Alison Reynolds and David Lewis
Looking at the executive teams we work with as consultants and those we teach in the classroom, increased diversity of gender, ethnicity, and age is apparent. Over recent decades the rightful endeavor
Sep 20, 2017
Pam Hart
Why Most Conversations in Tech About Diversity Are Bullshit — and What to Do About It: Part I
uxdesign.cc - Vivianne Castillo
I’ve been hesitant to write this post — fear of how it may affect my career path, how it may sway an employer’s decision to hire me, or dealing with …
Sep 15, 2017
Pam Hart
Part II: Why Most Conversations in Tech About Diversity Are Bullshit — and What to Do About It
uxdesign.cc - Vivianne Castillo
I want to provide this upfront because if we do not understand, access and embrace this antidote we will shut out the people who need to be the most …
Oct 13, 2017
Pam Hart
“Dorsey showed that he sees the problem, and that he’s working to address it. But his second answer also suggested he’s still not quite sure exactly what the problem is, let alone how it came to be. W …
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey answers questions on diversity with one good and one terrible answer
The Verge - Kaitlyn Tiffany
Apr 24, 2017
Julia
Women's News
The lack of women in tech is getting worse - Business Insider
Business Insider - Biz Carson
There has been a lot of talk about how to get women into tech, particularly on company boards and into leadership positions. Yet despite the scrutiny, the number of boards with no women increased in 2017,
Feb 14, 2017
Julia
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women2.com - Elisa Miller-Out
Women 2.0 interviews Michelle Suwannukul, Director of Culture and Engagement at Instacart, about her strategies for reducing unconscious bias and …
Jan 12, 2017
Laura Grantham
Sallie Krawcheck: Why I’m Over Women’s ‘Empowerment’
Fortune
Sallie Krawcheck, founder of Ellevest, wants women to stop waiting to be given power.
Jan 17, 2017
Laura Grantham
Business
I look like a self-made millionaire. But I owe my success to privilege.
Vox
I am a millionaire. The first in my family. A self-made success. It’s the story we love to tell ourselves in America about how anyone can make it. Except it’s not true. The reality is that most entrepreneurs
Jan 17, 2017
Laura Grantham
Feminism
To understand the Women's March on Washington, you need to understand intersectional feminism
Vox - Jenée Desmond-Harris
The day after inauguration, tens of thousands of people — maybe more — led by a group of four women, are marching in Washington, DC. and around the country. Their goal, although they’re not officially
Jan 21, 2017
Pam Hart
Venture Capital
Ellen Pao joins forces with Kapors on diversity
USA TODAY - Jessica Guynn
SAN FRANCISCO — Ellen Pao, whose lawsuit against her former venture capital firm catapulted her into the heated debate over diversity in technology, is combining forces with two of the leaders in the to
Jan 10, 2017
Pam Hart
Gender
No Man Is Above Unconscious Gender Bias In The Workplace - It's "Unconscious"
Forbes - Amy Rees Anderson
Imagine you are watching the following scenario take place: A small meeting is being held in a board room. At one end of the table sits a man (we will refer to him as man A) and across from him sitting
Dec 14, 2016
Pam Hart
Interesting to see results of Google Diversity initiatives!
Google’s head of diversity is leaving company
TechCrunch - Megan Rose Dickey
Dec 12, 2016
Julia
Five Ways Older Workers Can Combat Age Discrimination
Fast Company - Anne Loehr
These older professionals share how they’ve overcome age biases later in their careers. “I turned 50 and seemed to have been thrown out of the public relations profession, my industry of 20 years,” says
Dec 11, 2016
Pam Hart
How A Group Of CEOs Plans To Solve Gender Inequality At Their Companies
Fast Company - Lydia Dishman
A newly formed group of executives from large companies hope to hold each other accountable for their gender hiring goals. Technology may be pushing the rate of change ever faster, but so far, no app bot
Dec 9, 2016
Julia
Why It's Getting Harder, Not Easier, to Find Women with Computer Science Degrees
Inc Magazine - Jeremy Goldman
A disturbing trend, but there are some organizations devoted to fighting the root causes. You might assume that more and more women are finishing school with computer science degrees, right? There's just
Nov 27, 2016
Julia
Why Can’t Silicon Valley Solve Its Diversity Problem?
The New Yorker - Anna Wiener
Earlier this year, Facebook released its diversity numbers—which were only incrementally higher than they had been a year before, despite several internal initiatives—in a blog post that outlined what
Nov 26, 2016
Julia
How to recruit, hire and retain female engineers
TechCrunch - Sharon Wienbar
Leaders at tech startups are alarmed by the absence of women from mission-critical roles — software engineering, especially — at their own companies. Their boards are saying, “We gave you the money to
Nov 26, 2016
Laura Grantham
Social Media
This all-women Facebook team traveled the globe to help programmers build their business - Business Insider
Business Insider - Matt Weinberger
It's not everyday that Facebook shows off new products by the flicker of candlelight. But for the team of a dozen Facebook employees traveling the world, adapting to unpredictable situations and local
Nov 20, 2016
Julia
How General Assembly Is Helping Companies Increase Diversity
Fast Company - Kim Lightbody
The ed-tech organization is taking aim at hiring practices and working to eliminate unconscious bias. It’s no secret that the technology sector has a diversity problem. Even companies that have publicly
Nov 21, 2016
Julia
Satya Nadella
Microsoft says it will tie executive bonuses to diversity hiring goals
The Verge - Nick Statt
Following a year of decline in the number of women that make up its workforce, Microsoft says it will now tie executive bonuses to the company’s diversity efforts, according to a report in Bloomberg. move
Nov 18, 2016
Julia
Human Resources
LinkedIn thinks campus recruiting hurts tech sphere diversity
Mashable - Emma Hinchliffe
Campus recruiting is a staple of hiring for tech companies, but the process feeds into the lack of diversity already plaguing the industry. Elite colleges have their own diversity problems. And when companies
Nov 19, 2016
Julia
When bias in product design means life or death
TechCrunch - Carol E. Reiley
During my Ph.D. studies, I developed a voice-activated human-robot interface for a surgical robotic system using Microsoft’s speech recognition API. But, because the API had been built mainly by 20-30-year-old
Nov 16, 2016
Pam Hart
Business
Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
Harvard Business Review - David Rock and Heidi Grant
Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial
March 19
Julia
Here’s Why Latinas Are Abandoning Corporate America
Fortune
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Nov 3, 2016