diversity in Silicon Valley

The numbers are alarming.

Rosalind L. Hudnell is vice president, human resources and chief diversity officer for Intel Corporation and is currently leading Intel’s Diversity in Technology Initiative, a $300m effort to reach full representation the company by 2020. Hudnell joined Intel in 1996 and has held various management positions in community relations, government relations, charitable contributions, media outreach, […]

Amid demands by civil rights leaders and others for employers to improve foundering diversity on Silicon Valley, Facebook has been slow to build a workforce that mirrors its 1.4 billion users around the globe, according to the Guardian. Despite repeated promises by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chairman and chief executive, to build a less homogenous workforce, […]

Workplace diversity is about more than simply hiring people from underrepresented groups. Hugh Molotsi, vice president of the Intuit Incubator, says it’s also about being free to be who you are, regardless of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation. In an interview at the First Annual Diversity Affluence Brunch in Silicon Valley, in Palo Alto, Calif. earlier this […]

Silicon Valley‘s diversity problem is well-known. As Bloomberg reported last fall, Black and Hispanic people combined only had 6 percent of the tech jobs at four industry giants: Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter. If you want to know why it’s been so difficult to diversify the workforce in Silicon Valley to include more Black and Hispanic […]