Silicon Valley is the global leader in technological wizardry, but it suffers from an image as a young, all-white, all-male club. The success of social media startups like Facebook that appeared in recent years and grew their ranks by hiring young people created the notion that “young college dropouts” can “make it big in Silicon […]
Women, Minorities Underrepresented in Silicon Valley, Other Tech Hubs
Posted April 11th, 2014 at 2:20 pm (UTC-5)
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Tech Sightings, April 1, 2014
Posted April 1st, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Women, Impeded By Social Norms, Still Don’t Get IT Non-profit organization Catalyst says only 14.6 percent of executive officer positions in Fortune 500 companies last year were held by women. This number hasn’t budged much in four years; and the same is true at startup companies and social media firms. But the problem might actually […]