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Meet Bernard Coleman III, the man who has to make Uber more diverse and less sexist

The first-ever diversity officer at the car-hailing phenom is working to quickly get out a new diversity report.

How to watch the Women’s March on Washington online

You have a lot of options.

Twitter says it ‘met many’ of its goals around diversity last year, so it’s setting new goals for 2017

Twitter’s workforce is a little more diverse, but still predominantly white and male.

Most engineers are white — and so are the faces they use to train software

A black researcher had to wear a white mask to test her own project.

Workers aren’t taught to respect female bosses, Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman says

“We’re not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.”

Diversity in tech too often means ‘hiring white women.’ We need to move beyond that.

A company dominated by men hiring women from similar racial and socioeconomic backgrounds is not diversity in a meaningful sense.

More than 80 percent of tech founders still have no formal plans to promote diversity

And that’s a problem.

Trump voters were motivated by economic worries, says ‘Freakonomics’ co-author Stephen Dubner

Racism and xenophobia are only the symptoms of that anxiety, he says.

Apple’s executive ranks are still overwhelmingly white and male

Change is slow going at Apple, according to new data filed with the U.S. government.

Virtual reality is the new tech frontier, but it’s still a boys’ club

We have a big opportunity right now to open the doors and make sure VR, AR and AI are more inclusive.

Trump supporters can’t use ‘diversity of opinion’ as a defense for his harmful speech

If you have not yet voted, please vote for inclusion today.

Most VCs and entrepreneurs are doing nothing to fix Silicon Valley’s diversity problem

And that, of course, is the problem.

So, you’ve outraged the internet. Here’s how to apologize.

Bustle CEO Bryan Goldberg looks back on how he pissed off the wrong people, on Recode Media.

How does tech fix its diversity problem? Here’s 45 minutes of ideas.

The ideas come from more than a year’s worth of Recode Decode guests.

Sexism in Silicon Valley is bad, but it may be even worse in Hollywood

So says Brew Media founder Brooke Hammerling, who says women in PR are finally pushing back.

How to solve for the lack of women in technology

Why is the fastest-growing industry in the U.S. — which is predicted to provide more job opportunities than all other professional sectors — still failing to attract and retain women?

LinkedIn’s workforce is a little more diverse than it was a year ago

It’s still mostly white, mostly male.

Older workers can be more reliable and productive than their younger counterparts

It’s a real mistake to assume that “old” and “tech” are opposites.

Women in tech are held to tougher standards than men — and that has to change, investor Aileen Lee says

Also, doing more for diversity isn’t just a moral question.

Full transcript: TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot on Recode Decode

“When I go home to Detroit, there are people who don't know they can become the CEO of a tech company.”

Apple says it has investigated recent allegations of sexism on campus and ‘actions have been taken’

Apple’s HR chief says even companies that value diversity face challenges in a male-dominated field.

Full transcript: Walker & Company CEO Tristan Walker on Recode Decode

Walker’s six values for disrupting health and beauty: "Courage, inspiration, respect, judgment, wellness and loyalty."

Most tech is made by tech companies, for tech people

But what about the rest of the world outside of our bubble?

Why everyone should talk about diversity, according to TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot

“I have been ‘the only’ for most of my career.”

Diversity — and diversification — continues at big tech companies

Non-core businesses were a definite theme throughout the earnings reported over the last couple of weeks.

Facebook still isn’t very diverse, but it wants you to know it’s trying

Roughly 90 percent of Facebook’s U.S. employees are either white or Asian.

Prompted by #AltonSterling, an ex-Facebook worker says ‘Silicon Valley doesn’t care about black people’

Black tech worker Justin Edmund sounded off in a Medium essay.

Airbnb, Intel and Lyft are among 30 tech companies pledging to boost diversity within their ranks

The pledge comes ahead of a global entrepreneurship summit taking place this week in Silicon Valley.

Let's get real about supporting women in tech

The numbers aren't improving. Could it be because men just do a better job? Not according to the research.

Intel now says CEO Brian Krzanich is not endorsing Donald Trump or any presidential candidate

The move comes after the CEO scheduled, and then cancelled, a Bay Area fundraiser for Trump.

Intel's CEO planned — then scrapped — a fund-raiser for Donald Trump

Sources say there is dismay within the ranks of a company that has been at the forefront of efforts to boost tech industry diversity.

Photographer Helena Price sees an array of individuals in the tech industry crowd

She asked herself: Where are the faces like mine?