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As 2016 comes to a close, the Digital Diversity Network would like to wish its readers, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the Digital Diversity Network News Brief Weekly Insights on Tech Diversity a look at the most-accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Jan 5.
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The Wall Street Journal
From July 14: Facebook Inc. said recently that it made meager increases in the number of women and minorities working at the social-network giant, highlighting the difficulty large tech companies have in diversifying their workforces.
The share of Hispanic and black employees in the company's U.S. workforce didn't budge from a year ago, remaining at 4 percent and 2 percent, respectively. The percentage of women at Facebook inched up 1 percentage point to 33 percent.
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USA Today
From March 4: Airbnb has hired its first diversity chief to accelerate efforts to bring aboard more women and underrepresented minorities.
David King III, director of the Office of Civil Rights & Diversity for the Peace Corps, is Airbnb's new head of "diversity and belonging," a nod to Airbnb's marketing slogan: "Belong anywhere."
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Wired
From Feb. 16: There are any number of reasons why TED is different than your typical tech conference.
There's the $8,500 per ticket price tag, for one thing, and the star-studded list of attendees, for another. There's the confidentiality agreement that prevents me from writing about my run-ins with those stars (even though I really wish I could, you guys) and the fact that no personal screens are allowed in the main event hall — yes, even in 2016.
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The Hill
From June 22: More than 30 tech companies made a commitment to the White House to track and set workforce diversity goals.
The pledge by companies to make their workforce more representatives of the public was signed by a number of high-profile companies including Airbnb, Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium, Pinterest, Spotify, Zynga and others.
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USA Today
From July 8: Silicon Valley leaders — who rarely speak out on racially charged issues — are breaking their silence. The question is: Will they do more than talk?
In a series of posts on social media that followed the shooting deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling — black men killed in separate police encounters in the course of one day — some of the nation's most influential technology companies lined up in support of racial justice with the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag.
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San Francisco Gate
April 14: San Francisco's TaskRabbit has named Chief Operating Officer Stacy Brown-Philpot as its CEO, making her one of the few black women to lead a Bay Area tech company. Leah Busque, who has led the odd-jobs marketplace since founding it eight years ago, will become executive chairwoman.
"Since she joined three years ago, Stacy has helped TaskRabbit evolve the platform, launch in international markets (London) and recruit talent at all levels of the company," Busque wrote in a post on Medium.
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BostInno
From April 14: Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, was in Boston to talk about his upbringing, how he manages leading two companies and, most importantly, what the companies are doing to better support diversity in the workplace.
Dorsey was in Boston as a guest speaker for the National Society of Black Engineers 42nd Annual Convention, which was expected to bring in more than 10,000 attendees at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
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Tech Crunch
From Feb. 1: Founded in 2011, Black Girls Code is on a mission to change the face of technology by introducing girls from underrepresented communities to coding. Black Girls Code does this through a series of workshops, hackathons and summer camps.
"When we look at tech companies, they really at this point in time don't reflect the demographics of the U.S. or the world in general and the people that are using those products," Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant said.
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USA Today
From Jan. 6: Pinterest has hired its first diversity chief to help meet its goals to hire more women and underrepresented minorities.
Candice Morgan worked for nearly a decade at non-profit Catalyst Inc., where she advised companies in a range of industries on how to build more inclusive work cultures. The hire is notable. While technology giants such as Facebook, Google and Intel have large staffs dedicated to increasing diversity, smaller tech companies have only just begun to hire diversity chiefs to increase the ranks of underrepresented groups, but they are doing so at much earlier stages.
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USA Today
Intel has committed $300 million to ensure that by 2020 its staff mirrors what it calls the market availability of the U.S. tech workforce.
But even that kind of cash doesn't buy overnight success.
In the tech company's latest mid-year diversity report released Aug. 10, most of Intel's key metrics remained flat or ticked up slightly despite concerted efforts in the past six months to target women and minorities in the hiring process.
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