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Diversity at work: hiring 'the best person for the job' isn't enough | Women in Leadership | The Guardian

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Article: Cisco's Latest Diversity Stats Show Little Progress For Women or Minorities

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Cisco's Latest Diversity Stats Show Little Progress For Women or Minorities

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The networking giant been releasing its diversity numbers for a decade, but change has been slow. It turns out that hiring more women and minorities…

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‘Speaking Up Didn’t Fix a Damn Thing': Xoogler Rails at Search Giant on Diversity

http://recode.net/2015/07/25/speaking-up-didnt-fix-a-damn-thing-ex-googler-rails-at-search-giant-for-diversity-issue/

Global Diversity Week, Overview of PwC Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

Global Diversity Week, Overview of PwC Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

Facebook's latest diversity report shows little progress

http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/26/8850939/facebooks-diversity-report-race-gender-jobs

Here’s Jesse Jackson’s Plan for Diversity in Silicon Valley

http://recode.net/2015/05/14/jesse-jackson-has-a-plan-for-diversity-in-silicon-valley/

Report: Environmental groups lack gender and ethnic diversity - Blue and Green Tomorrow

Report: Environmental groups lack gender and ethnic diversity - Blue and Green Tomorrow

Google Diversity Data Pressures Silicon Valley to Change

Google Inc. (GOOG)’s decision to lay bare its lack of diversity ramps up the pressure on other Silicon Valley companies to increase the number of women and minorities among technology workers.

Women make up 30 percent of employees and 91 percent of staff are either white or Asian, the Mountain View, California-based company disclosed in a blog post on May 28.

The dearth of female and minority engineers, startup founders and business leaders has long been a sore point for female executives including Facebook Inc.’s Sheryl Sandberg as well as activists such as Jesse Jackson. Google’s disclosure follows increasing calls from investors and activists for companies in the technology hub -- which prides itself on being liberal and culturally inclusive -- to embrace diversity.

See full Article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-30/google-diversity-data-pressures-silicon-valley-to-change.html

PBS Newshour: Fixing Google’s gender gap shouldn’t be so hard - Vivek Wadhwa

“I agree we need to have a team that understands the product needs of more than just the young male user, but we just can’t find them,” said Ankur Jain at the first board meeting of his startup Humin in May 2013. This is the same explanation that all Silicon Valley companies — both large and small — provide, to justify their dearth of women technologists.

I advised the Humin team to network with women’s groups and look harder. And that is what it did. By broadening their search process, they found a depth and breadth of female talent, especially among developers whose original background was in engineering fields beyond computer science. Today, six members — one-third — of Humin’s engineering team of 18 are women. Two of the women have a Ph.D.

This is why I look at Google’s gender data with disappointment and don’t buy its excuses.

Google’s gender-diversity should be better than Humin’s, not just 17 percent. Consider that women comprised 37 percent of the computer science class of 1987. Because of the unfair hurdles they face, women are getting discouraged from studying computer science, and the percentage had fallen to 18 percent by 2012. But about a quarter of today’s pool of highly experienced software developers is female, and a company such as Google — which has its pick of the crop of new graduates as well as experienced engineers — should have far greater diversity.

PBS Newshour: Fixing Google’s gender gap shouldn’t be so hard - Vivek Wadhwa

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International Women's Day: Taking on the boardroom in the war on inequality - swissinfo.ch

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ILO - International Women's Day

Women at work – where we are, where we want to be

To mark International Women’s Day, the ILO reflects on the progress that has been made and what still needs to be done to achieve gender equality in the workplace. Follow two women, an Indian CEO and a US school teacher, whose experiences shed an interesting light on the common challenges facing women across the globe.

Take a look back: The fight for women’s rights in the workplace – an ILO history in pictures
GENEVA (ILO News) – When the International Labour Organization was founded in 1919, most women around the world did not have the right to vote and most in paid work had little or no collective voice to advocate for their workplace rights.

Nearly a century on, female participation in the labour market has significantly increased, along with progress on their rights at work. However millions still face significant barriers in accessing equal opportunity and treatment in their jobs.

See full Press Release: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/multimedia/features/WCMS_237054/lang--en/index.htm

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