Diversity in tech

Lyft's proportional representation for women went down from 2017 to 2018.

Facebook's annual diversity report showed encouraging signs for women, but little improvement along racial lines.

Google published its first company diversity report since the James Damore manifesto incident last year, showing minimal improvement in demographic inclusion among Google employees.

This year's gay pride celebration in Tel Aviv lauds “Women in the Community” who are making their presence felt in the male-dominated tech industry.

A group of eight prominent women in Silicon Valley have launched "Project Include" to bring more racial and gender diversity to the tech industry’s workforce.

At the 42nd convention for the National Society of Black Engineers, Jack Dorsey spoke to his company's need to employ more people of color.

Compensation of male and female software engineers can differ by as much as $10,000 annually, a study found. But some companies are attempting to bridge the gap.

The tech industry’s year-to-year growth for women’s representation actually peaked in 2013, a data analysis has found.

Despite hiring thousands of minority laborers, the e-commerce and media giant hired only a few hundred for office roles, a report says.

Although Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield has been vocal about inclusion, data show the software maker hired only three black people in the last half of 2015.

The cloud-storage company saw a 2 percentage-point drop in its workforce representation of women in 2015.

Tech companies — where women hold 33 percent of jobs — are trying to lure back women who left the industry.

Major tech firms are often based in pricey white suburbs that can alienate some minority job seekers, a black ex-Googler notes.

Companies like Facebook and Apple are partnering with CodePath in the hope of finding a less homogeneous group of college software engineers.

The company saw 55 times more women and minority job applicants after asking employees for help in recruiting them.

The head of AT&T’s diversity efforts says the telecommunications company takes a multifaceted approach to the topic.

More than half of women in tech reported unwanted sexual advances, with many incidents involving superiors, a study found.

Apple could be required to add more people of color to high-profile positions as part of a resolution that shareholders are considering.

Can Jeffrey Siminoff, a gay white man, really improve the company’s diversity record? Experts on hiring say it’s about competence.

At the end of his rope and facing eviction, 39-year-old Justin Webb learns that finding work as a programmer isn't easy in Silicon Valley.

Both companies are more than a month late releasing their workforce demographics reports for the year.

About 5,500 black students earn engineering and computer science degrees in the U.S. each year, but most go unhired by America's top technology companies.

Decades-old FDA regulations prohibit men who have sex with men from donating blood and that's not OK with Twitter.

Silicon Valley is always on the lookout for the next great startup, and to attract minorities and women some accelerators are blowing up the traditional model.

Lisa Lambert, the head of Intel Capital's diversity fund, says ignoring female, Hispanic and African-American entrepreneurs is bad for business.

Alex Roetter, Twitter's head of engineering, apologized to employees over diversity issues at the company and said it will now require all employees to undertake inclusion training.

African-Americans hold just 1 percent of tech jobs for the popular microblogging site, even though they comprise nearly a third of the site's users.

Securities and Exchange Commission rules enacted Friday allow entrepreneurs to raise as much as $1 million from nonaccredited investors.

Women who graduate from coding boot camps earn starting salaries that are $10,000 higher on average than their male peers, a study found.

Two companies are launching a survey to find out more about issues faced by women and minorities in Silicon Valley. Some 70 tech firms have already expressed interest.