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Article

24 Aug 2015

Author:
Megan Rose Dickey, TechCrunch (USA)

USA: Company helps internet & technology firms create better workforce diversity & inclusion

"Meet Joelle Emerson, The Startup CEO Helping Slack, Pinterest And Airbnb Tackle Diversity", 23 Aug 2015

...[T]ech companies are aware of the lack of diversity and some are even actively taking steps to do something about it. Pinterest, for example, recently announced a new diversity initiative called Inclusion Labs, in partnership with a startup called Paradigm. As part of Inclusion Labs, Pinterest has set goals to increase hiring rates for full-time engineering roles to 30% female, and interview at least one person from an underrepresented background as well as one woman for every open leadership position...Before Emerson started Paradigm...she practiced law around gender equality at...a non-profit organization for women's rights...When tech companies started releasing their diversity reports, saying that they were committed to doing better...Emerson saw an opportunity to intervene at an earlier stage by partnering with the companies that said they want to get better about diversity and inclusion...At Pinterest and Slack, for example, Paradigm has hosted unconscious bias training programs for their employees...[Also refers to Airbnb, Quora]