diversity
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‘Bro Culture’ Led To Repeated Sexual Harassment, Former Google Engineer’s Lawsuit Says
Loretta Lee, a software engineer who worked at Google for seven years before being fired in February 2016, is suing Google for sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination she says she experienced at the company. Lee says in her lawsuit that the company’s “bro-culture” led to continuous harassment and that Google did nothing to…
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Google CEO Reaffirms Firing James Damore Was The Way To Go, ‘I Don’t Regret It’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai isn’t rattled by former engineer James Damore’s lawsuit against the tech giant for alleged discrimination against white, conservative men, at least according to remarks he made this week to MSNBC and Recode.
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Apple’s Diversity Chief Is Leaving After Six Months
Apple’s Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, Denise Young Smith, is leaving the company at the end of the year, Bloomberg reports. Earlier this month, Cornell Tech announced Young Smith would be joining the faculty as an executive-in-residence in January.
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Why Can’t This Soap Dispenser Identify Dark Skin?
GIF: Facebook/Chukwuemeka Afigbo On Wednesday, a Facebook employee in Nigeria shared footage of a minor inconvenience that he says speaks to tech’s larger diversity problem. In the video, a white man and a dark-skinned black man both try to get soap from a soap dispenser. The soap dispenses for the white man, but not the darker…