A close study of word choice in job descriptions and recruiting emails reveals how tech companies are inadvertently hindering diversity.
A year after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella backpedaled from a gaffe at a women's tech conference and announced a major employee diversity push,Microsoft reported in November that roles for women in its tech positions had actually gone down. At the same time, roles for African Americans and Latinos had barely budged, or with them holding just over 6% of tech jobs at the company. Results for other major technology firms,despite their public pledges, aren't much better. Which can lead to the question: Is all this talk of diversity just empty words?Read Full chronicle
Source: fastcompany.com