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Diversity

The next Congress will be the most representative of Latino identity ever

By Christian Paz

The SEC greenlights a plan to make company boards more diverse

By Rani Molla

Black women in tech make 90 cents for every dollar a white man makes

By Rani Molla

This Barack Obama adviser is quietly investing $250 million in startup founders of color

By Theodore Schleifer

The controversy behind a star Google AI researcher’s departure 

By Shirin Ghaffary

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is one of the most diverse ever

By Li Zhou

One of the few Black C-suite execs in tech is starting a firm to invest in Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs

By Jason Del Rey

Did Cards Against Humanity’s ironic humor mask a toxic culture all along?

By Aja Romano

Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough.

By Constance Grady

Why Silicon Valley’s accomplishments on gender diversity are not as good as they seem

By Theodore Schleifer

The Black List’s Franklin Leonard says greed can combat Hollywood’s bias

By Devin Nadi

The robot revolution will be worse for men

By Rani Molla

Jeff Bezos finally added 2 more women to Amazon’s senior leadership team — joining 19 men

By Jason Del Rey

The Wing wants to fight gender bias in hiring by helping its members hire each other

By Eric Johnson

Social media is the perfect petri dish for bias. The solution is for tech companies to slow us down.

By Eric Johnson

The world’s biggest women’s tech conference just dropped Palantir as a sponsor

By Shirin Ghaffary

15 Democratic candidates pledge to seek gender parity in their national security teams

By Alex Ward

Why women in tech are being Photoshopped in instead of hired

By Rani Molla

Silicon Valley needs new investors if it wants to close the gender gap, Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani says

By Eric Johnson

Recode Decode at TED: Biologist Danielle N. Lee wants more “nerdy black and brown kids” in STEM

By Eric Johnson

Tech is “flunking” the diversity test, says activist and venture capitalist Freada Kapor Klein

By Eric Johnson

New York City wants to make sure the AI and algorithms it uses aren’t biased. That’s harder than it sounds.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Everyone in TV news goes for outrage. That makes it “ripe for disruption,” says former CNN reporter Jessica Yellin

By Eric Johnson

The challenge for Silicon Valley’s women’s movement is to keep momentum after the #MeToo scandals fade away

By Theodore Schleifer

How will AI change your life? AI Now Institute founders Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker explain.

By Eric Johnson

The gender wage gap is smaller in tech, but it will hurt the economy more

By Rani Molla

Silicon Valley keeps trying to “cure” death. It should fix its own ageism instead, says activist Ashton Applewhite.

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson

Even tech workers can’t afford to buy homes in San Francisco

By Shirin Ghaffary

Innovative sex toys aren’t a joke, says Lora DiCarlo CEO Lora Haddock

By Eric Johnson

Amazon employees were outraged that its board of directors was all white. The company has finally changed that.

By Jason Del Rey

A new and intriguing idea to increase investment in women-led startups

By Theodore Schleifer

Mellody Hobson thinks too many all-white, all-male companies are committing “corporate suicide”

By Theodore Schleifer

Full Q&A: NYU’s Jonathan Haidt explains the problem with Gen Z

By Eric Johnson

Silicon Valley pledged to break up the boys’ club of investing in 2018. How did it do?

By Theodore Schleifer

Framebridge CEO Susan Tynan explains why it’s okay to be analog in a digital world

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Recode’s Kara Swisher discuss tech ethics, addiction and Facebook

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: ‘Good and Mad’ author Rebecca Traister on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson

Why tech companies need to reinvent themselves every three to four years

By Eric Johnson

California is officially the first state that will try to require companies like Apple, Facebook and Alphabet to add more women to their boards

By Shirin Ghaffary