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USA Today
Laura Weidman Powers, who has built CODE2040 into a major force for diversifying the technology industry, is taking her advocacy to the White House with her appointment as a senior policy adviser to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith.
For six months Powers will serve in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, focusing on diversity and inclusion in tech hiring and entrepreneurship, CODE2040 said Saturday.
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Independent.ie
Facebook, which recently reported record revenue and user numbers, recently admitted that it remains largely a white male firm. The number of women working at Facebook is stuck at 33pc, while black employees make up just 2pc of the social networking giant's staff.
The figures are for Facebook's U.S. operations. But it's a common story across the world and here in Ireland: tech companies largely hire white men for the vast bulk of senior technical, engineering and management roles.
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IT-Online
In a departure from conventional thinking, Professor Barry Shoop says that staying close to customers can blind cmpanies to disruptive innovations and leads increasingly to failure for technology leaders.
Prof Shoop, head of the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the West Point U.S. Military Academy, and 2016 global IEEE president, was discussing disruptive innovation durig a lecture series arranged by the faculty of engineering and the built environment at the University of Johannesburg’s Kingsway campus.
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Business Insider
Slack, the fast-growing business messaging service, is making progress in solving Silicon Valley’s diversity problem where larger firms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google are struggling.
The company is using blind testing to recruit engineers from diverse backgrounds. It scores candidates on tests without requiring them to reveal their names or educational background.
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The Huffington Post
Hillary Clinton just pushed through the ultimate glass ceiling to become the first female presidential nominee, and in Australia women are smashing away at similar barriers in their workplace.
Women are still dramatically underrepresented in many traditionally male-dominated industries, notably the tech sector and construction and trades.
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InfoWorld
There's been a lot of hand-wringing in Silicon Valley about its diversity problem: the tiny percentages of blacks, Hispanics, and women hired in the heart of the tech industry. Companies like Apple, Google, and Yahoo now publish self-shaming diversity reports that show they're anything but. The implication is that Silicon Valley is racist and misogynistic. That's not exactly right — it readily accepts Asians, both native and immigrants. And it's long been welcoming to gays.
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Fortune
It’s official: Apple announced Monday that it will update its emoji library to include more images of women playing sports and doing jobs previously available only to men. The new graphics will be available this fall, when the company releases iOS 10.
The update will include women and people of color surfing, lifting weights, biking and working as police officers, construction workers, doctors and more.
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Business 2 Community
Much has been written about the lack of women in technology, startups, engineering and Silicon Valley. And San Francisco is no different. If you walk around during lunch on any given day, you’ll notice who isn’t there: women. Recently, I even heard about a dating service that is going to be flying in women from New York because there are so few women in San Francisco. So where are all the women?
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TechCrunch
The Israeli startup scene has dramatically changed within a couple of years because of the significant increase in investment prospects (i.e. incubators, accelerators, angels), events, meet-ups, competitions, lectures, academic programs and more.
Especially interesting are the slowly, yet surely recent alterations in the diversity of the entrepreneurs, with more and more women entering the previously male-dominated startup habitat, turning it into an even more interesting scene.
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