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All stories in diversity
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Learn from my startup’s mistakes — how to do freelance recruitment right
My company is made up exclusively of remote working freelancers. It hasn’t been all plain sailing — freelance ‘staff’ ...
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Analytics are the antidote to toxic meeting culture
Every team and every meeting is different, but defining and calibrating unique meeting engagement targets and KPIs is the ...
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You need to stop hiring 'cultural fits'
Every organization would say they want to hire according to merit. The problem is that many people unconsciously evaluate ...
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Tech dismally failed a 25-year challenge to achieve gender equality by 2020
In 1995, pioneering computer scientist Anita Borg challenged the tech community to a moonshot: equal representation of women ...
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What is an 'entrepreneurial ecosystem'? And why you need one to raise a startup
The geography of entrepreneurship is “spiky,” meaning that from region to region there are significant variations in ...
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4 steps towards decolonizing your business
When the British government abolished slavery in 1833, it handsomely compensated the 47,000 slave owners for the loss of ...
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LGBTQ+ visual novels: The genre that's doing inclusivity right
Visual novels are a bit of a niche genre. But they have far and away the most diverse casts. Here's why they've become the ...
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So your company made a statement about BLM — now what?
Futurist Adah Parris lists how companies can actually go about supporting deep and long lasting changes that they proclaim ...
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5 ways to be a better ally in the office, according to psychology
In recent interviews, the American soccer player Crystal Dunn expressed the joy and fear she felt when her teammate Megan ...
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Accessibility will make your product better — for everyone
My friend's experience with hiring a CTO is a great reminder of how every single business benefits from ensuring accessibility. ...
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TNW Pride 2020: Why queer representation is so important for STEM
It's (almost) time! Welcome to 🏳️🌈TNW Pride 2020🏳️🌈. We'll be covering tech-related Pride stories and ...
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Democrats demand answers from Google on diversity training cuts
Democrats in the US House of Representatives have demanded answers from Google on reported cuts to its diversity and inclusion ...
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It's lonely being a female engineer — here’s how we fix it
Ultimately, I want fellow female engineers to be bold enough to join an all-male team, but also lucky enough to not have ...
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As a CEO I’m often wrong — but that’s okay
In order to improve as a person and entrepreneur, you will need to adopt a ‘strong convictions, weakly held’ state of ...
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It's 2020 and tech still sucks at diversity – here's how we fix it
The tech industry, which is ironically synonymous with innovation and progress, has a deep-rooted problem: A lack of diversity. Here's ...
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How to stop bias from creeping into the recruitment process, a diversity expert explains
Alison Wynn, a diversity researcher, hosted a TNW Answers session where she spoke about her research into gender equality ...
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Don’t just hire the ‘best’ people — focus on diversity
You’re not doing yourself a favor if you think that skills are the only thing that matters — a non-diverse hire is a ...
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Decade of Diversity: How tech failed to fix its gender disparity problem
A lack of diversity is a huge issue the tech industry faces, despite more women working in tech, female representation has ...
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Study: Women and ethnic minorities in data science probably won’t get promoted over white men
New diversity reports found women or ethnic minorities in the data and analytics industry are half as likely to reach a leadership ...
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Making diversity fly
I’m passionate about diversity, but not (just) because it’s the right thing to do. Sure, affording people equal opportunity, ...
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5 unmissable events in Amsterdam to improve workplace diversity
Diversity and inclusion: they're topics many companies talk about, especially around the time of Pride — but how can we ...
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This physicist has written over 500 biographies of women scientists on Wikipedia
Physicist, Jess Wade, has spent the last year trying to improve the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia by adding ...
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Token hires don’t help diversity, making core changes does
Discussing diversity and inclusion (D&I) practices in the workplace can be a delicate subject -- but it shouldn’t be. ...
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When it comes to speaker diversity, we've only scratched the surface
We all live professional lives alongside people who look pretty different from one another. So, why is it that the conferences ...
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Dropbox Chief of Staff: Diversity and inclusion begin with hiring
Speaking at TNW 2019, Dropbox Chief of Staff Carmen Pop spoke at length about better hiring practices that encourage Silicon ...
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How AI can help close the gender pay gap and eliminate bias
We’ve learned how to build self-driving cars and smartphones but somehow still didn't figure out how to pay men and women ...
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Booking.com's CEO on diversity in tech and the future of tourism
In an age of digital advancement, the tourism industry has embraced new tech to deliver improved user experiences. With the ...
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Why diverse teams make better business decisions
And we're not just talking about diversity in gender, race, ethnicity and cultural background.
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Why it’s a no-brainer to have women in your startup’s exec team
While women have made strides toward better representation in leadership roles over the last decade, the progress has been ...
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Humans have completely destabilized land animal diversity
Species living on land make up 85 percent to 95 percent of all biodiversity on Earth today. This is especially impressive ...
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The blockchain industry is sexist and still sucks at diversity
Diversity is a term that’s thrown about often, and sometimes rather vacuously, but the fact of the matter is that the blockchain ...
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Here's how male (and white) VC firms are
CB Insights released its top 100 VC influencers, and guess what? There are only 9 women on the whole list. This isn't how ...
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Venture capital is really male and really really white — Arlan Hamilton wants to fix it
Arlan Hamilton, CEO and founder of Backstage Capital, wants to see more color in venture capital. Backstage focuses on ...
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CES' issue with ‘immoral’ female sex toy isn’t its first sexism problem
CES, the annual conference event showcasing the latest cutting-edge tech has an ugly reputation of gender bias, sexism, ...
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85% of employees at recently launched blockchain startups are male
Recent analysis has discovered men comprise an overwhelming majority of recent blockchain startups - just 14.5 percent of ...
