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All stories in diversity
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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 ...
