Long before the ubiquity of Covid-19, Tiffany Dufu had plans to kick off a seed round in March 2020. Then the pandemic hit and both she and her husband contracted the virus.
While juggling childcare responsibilities and an illn...
While the COVID-19 crisis has ushered in an array of unsettling changes, one outcome has been touted as overwhelmingly positive and long overdue: the shift to remote work.
Freed from the burden of commuting to an office, employees are more productiveand have more time t...
"No one, it is safe to assume, told J.F.K. he was too ambitious.
In 1956, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he campaigned aggressively to be vice president, said Keneshia Grant, an associate professor of political science at Howard University. His father...
There’s a larger lesson to be learned from the mini fiasco that played out on social media platforms two weeks ago during “Blackout Tuesday.” Excessive posting of black squares meant to show alliance with Black Lives Matter activists ended up drowning out the very Bla...
I’d be lying if I said I’d had a clear plan for fostering inclusion from day one. Of course, I wanted an inclusive company culture (what founder doesn’t?), but that isn’t where the company’s first efforts went by any means.
What’s it like to be an executive at your company? If you asked a male and female executive, would you get the same answers? What about executives of different ethnicities?
As a female executive who has worked in the tech industry for the past 25 years, I’ve watched ot...
Building a diverse and inclusive workplace goes far beyond hiring. Especially when it comes to hiring women. That’s according to Dr. Tarika Barrett, chief operating officer of Girls Who Code, an international nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in te...
Gender bias in STEM-related subjects and the lack of women has already been adequately recorded and reported. It has also been estimated that closing the gender gap in the STEM field would increase the EU GDP per capita by 0.7–0.9 per cent in 2030 and by 2.2–3.0 per ce...
