Business & Tech Apple Shareholders Scoff at Think Tank Proposal to Scrap DEI Programs At least one more major US company isn't rushing to toss its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives just because Trump and his minions don't get racism.
SF News Affirmative Action Decision at Supreme Court Will Likely Mean Less Diversity at California's Private Universities After the conservative-dominated Supreme Court ruled today that race-conscious admissions policies are unconstitutional, the repercussions in higher education are likely to be felt most acutely at the most in-demand and prestigious universities.
SF News Incoming Lowell High School Class to Better Reflect San Francisco's Diversity With More Black and Latinx Students The San Francisco Unified School District has released some numbers on the incoming ninth grade class at Lowell High School, now that the school will no longer have merit-based admissions but will operate on a lottery system.
Business & Tech Former Google Engineer Fired Over Sexist Memo Drops Lawsuit James Damore, the widely reviled former Google engineer whose 2017 firing became a cause célèbre for conservatives and far-right pundits who hate diversity quotas, has abruptly dropped his lawsuit against the company, possibly because of some quiet settlement.
SF News SF Republican Attorney Takes On James Damore Case, Suggests Possible Class-Action Against Google The latest in the story of fired Google engineer James Damore is that he's hired a prominent conservative lawyer from San Francisco who was shortlisted for a possible post in President Trump's Justice
SF News Alt-Right Plans 'March on Google,' Doxxing Campaign To Defend Fired Brogrammer Here we see James Damore, who had himself a sad little two-person protest at Google’s Mountain View headquarters Thursday afternoon. (Mr. “Fired for Truth,” of course, fudged the truth on his resume.
SF News Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Controversial Anti-Diversity Memo The Google software engineer who suggested that women are biologically less well-suited to engineering work in an internal memo last week was fired on Monday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, "First, let me
SF News Google Employee Writes Internal Memo Railing Against Women, Diversity; Rage Ensues A memo from a senior software engineer that went "internally viral" at Google last week titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" reportedly laid out a manifesto for why women are less well suited for
SF News Uber's First Diversity Report: Not Very Uber has been forced to take a long, hard look in the mirror after a series of scandals that mostly boil down to reflections of the company's aggressive attitude and corporate culture. At
SF News Zuckerberg Stands By Facebook Board Member Peter Thiel And Claims Support For Trump Counts As 'Diversity' As the backlash against prominent Donald Trump supporter and Facebook board member Peter Thiel continues to grow, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come out in support of the controversial Libertarian — suggesting that not
SF News Apple PR Bungles Response To Diversity Criticism Apple, like much of the tech industry, has been criticized for a perceived lack of diversity in its leadership ranks. The recent unveiling of the company's new iPhone provided a very prominent opportunity
Arts & Entertainment Snapchat Once Again Proves Its Racial Cluelessness, Removes Slanty-Eyed Filter @Snapchat @snapchatsupport idk if u realize, but this filter is yellowface and u should take it down pic.twitter.com/MLSHz0Bbkl— lia (@limb_light) August 9, 2016 Much like they did on 4/
SF News Facebook Releases (Low) Diversity Numbers, Adds LGBTQ Stats, Appears To Blame Public School System If everyone has a Facebook account, in order to best represent all of these peoples' interests, Facebook employees should look like — and have had the experiences of — as many people as possible. Right?
SF News Apple Formally Opposes Shareholder Call For Increased Diversity Apple is calling a shareholder call for increased diversity among higher management "unduly burdensome" and unnecessary. In an official statement issued earlier this month in preparation for an upcoming February 26 shareholder meeting,
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Has SF's Diversity Changed As Much As People Say It Has? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
SF News Middle School Election Results Not Diverse Enough, Says School's Principal The results of a student election at San Francisco middle school are being withheld because the principal feels the results don't reflect the school's diversity. "That is concerning to me because as principal
SF News 'Blackbird': One Former Twitter Employee's Perspective On Race And Tech "My fingertips danced with delight as I frantically typed away at my computer,' Mark S. Luckie begins his new Medium essay What it’s actually like to be a Black employee at
SF News Google Is Mostly White Males, Admits Google As the conversation continues about diversity in tech, Google has finally released data on the company's gender and ethnicity breakdown. The numbers, a Google exec freely admits, are "not where we want to
SF News Vallejo, Oakland Named Among Most Diverse Cities In U.S. We always knew that the demographics of Oakland made it one of the most diverse cities in the country, but we did not know that Vallejo is, by the numbers, even more evenly
