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Diversity

New study reveals disturbing stats on gender discrimination in tech

“In one review session, one male partner said of a female employee, ‘We don’t have to worry about her bonus… Read More

A closer look at Microsoft’s U.S. diversity: 46% white males, 481 fewer women than 2014

Microsoft made headlines on Monday afternoon with updated workforce statistics, but a federal report the company quietly published at the same time… Read More

Microsoft’s female workforce drops 2%, but company boosts diversity among top execs

The number of women employed by Microsoft has dropped from 29 percent to 26.8 percent of the company’s workforce since 2014,… Read More

Microsoft CEO: Why Minecraft is key to getting girls involved in computer science

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella welcomed a group of teachers to the company’s Redmond, Wash., campus on Monday morning, talking to… Read More

‘The Diversity Advantage’: Why hiring, promoting and funding more women will boost your bottom line

Women’s workplace problems aren’t just women’s problems. Those issues affect everyone and especially the economic bottom line. That’s one of… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella skips speaking role at women in tech event, will listen and learn this time

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be returning to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference again this week,… Read More

Seattle’s tech diversity gap and what Techstars is doing about it, here and around the world

Whether it’s marriage equality, legalizing marijuana or addressing the growing gap between rich and poor, we Seattleites like to think… Read More

Microsoft’s employee review system is biased against women, lawsuit alleges

A former Microsoft security program manager alleges in a newly filed lawsuit that the company’s employee review system discriminates against women in… Read More

Meet the tiny Seattle startup helping Twitter solve its diversity problems, one job posting at a time

Twitter raised the bar for the conversation around diversity in the technology industry on Friday, not just releasing its own… Read More

Portland Development Commission launches $3M fund for underrepresented entrepreneurs

The Portland Development Commission today launched a new $3 million fund that will invest in startups founded by underrepresented groups.… Read More

Microsoft wants a more diverse legal team, and it’s putting up $15M to make it happen

Microsoft announced an update to its Law Firm Diversity Program on Tuesday as it narrows its focus on bringing more… Read More

Techtown encourages Portland tech companies to take five steps toward greater diversity

There are plenty of people working on a way to increase the diversity of the tech community. From coding scholarships… Read More

Next stop for Rev. Jesse Jackson: Amazon’s shareholders meeting

Jesse Jackson, meet Jeff Bezos. The civil rights activist, continuing his push for diversity in the tech industry, is planning… Read More

Apple puts $50 million towards efforts to build a more diverse tech workforce

Apple is putting more of its money where its mouth is when it comes to building a more diverse workforce… Read More

Facebook offers free-form gender option for people who don’t fit a binary

Facebook has tweaked the gender options available on the social network so that people who don’t conform to a traditional… Read More

New Mac and iOS betas show off hundreds of racially diverse emoji

The wacky world of emoji may be getting more diverse, if a new beta versions of Apple’s operating systems are any… Read More

CES Video: Celebs, drones, parties and more of GeekWire’s impressions from the show floor

LAS VEGAS — CES is in full swing, and we’re back with another video recap from the GeekWire team, this time from… Read More

Apple, Amazon refuse to release federal diversity info

More tech companies are starting to release information about the demographics of their workforces, but not every firm is interested… Read More

Rev. Jesse Jackson: Some parts of tech world ‘as segregated as the Ferguson police force’

The technology industry is the next frontier for civil rights, Rev. Jesse Jackson told hundreds who came to hear his… Read More

GeekWire Interview: Rev. Jesse Jackson sees parallels to civil rights movement in push for tech diversity

The Rev. Jesse Jackson uses an old-fashioned cell phone and readily acknowledges that he isn’t a technology expert. But he believes,… Read More

Rev. Jesse Jackson is coming to Seattle to talk about diversity in tech

Former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson has taken tech companies to task in recent months, encouraging them to release data about… Read More

Amazon releases diversity numbers: 75% of managers male, 60% of U.S. employees white

Jesse Jackson’s request has been fulfilled. Nearly two months after the civil rights activist asked Amazon to disclose the gender… Read More

Rev. Jesse Jackson to Amazon: Please, release your diversity numbers

Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter all have released data about the diversity of their workforces in recent months. But there’s… Read More

Chart: This is how bad the gender gap is at tech companies

Looking over the diversity data released by major tech companies over the past several months paints a bleak picture of… Read More

Survey: Venture capital is very much dominated by white men

A firestorm erupted earlier this month after CNN’s Soledad O’Brien questioned blogger-turned-venture capitalist Michael Arrington and others about why more black… Read More

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