After stints at Disney, Google and Twitter, Vaishnavi Jayakumar joined Facebook and Instagram owner Meta in January 2020. Her job on the youth policy team was to protect children and teens from bullying, harassment and other forms of abuse. But Jayakumar – an Asian American originally from Singapore – says she couldn’t shield herself from […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled race-conscious college admissions policies and practices unconstitutional. Affirmative Action opponents have long argued that admitting presumably unqualified applicants of color to highly-selective institutions sets those students up for failure because they can’t do the work. If completing a bachelor’s degree is a reasonable measure of whether someone has what
From Princeton to Netflix to Meta, we have seen massive turnover among Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders. A survey from Korn Ferry found that the average tenure of a Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) is under 24 months—one of the shortest average tenures among all executives. An estimated 60% of CDOs left positions between 2018
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Tracy Chou launched the Twitter app Block Party in 2021 to help users escape targeted harassment campaigns that she—as an Asian American woman—knew from personal experience could ostracize vulnerable voices from the public conversation. But on Wednesday Block Party closed its doors, becoming the latest victim of soaring new bills imposed by a struggling Twitter
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You’ve probably heard of the glass ceiling when it comes to women in the workplace, but the “glass cliff” is just as harmful. Whereas the glass ceiling is a metaphor for the barrier women face in the workplace, the “glass cliff” builds on that idea — it’s the phenomenon in which female executives are only
Trailblazing actor Anna May Wong is making her debut in the Barbie’s Inspiring Women series. Wong, who is considered the first Chinese American female actor in Hollywood, will be the first Asian American figure featured in the Mattel collection, which highlights notable women in history such as poet Dr. Maya Angelou, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt
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Two New Orleans students have put their math knowledge to the ultimate test and have come out favorable in the end. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, high schoolers at St. Mary’s Academy, have proven Pythagoras’ Theorem without circular logic, according to WWL-TV. The mathematical discovery is said to have not been proven by mathematicians for
Big Tech companies including Amazon, Salesforce, Google and Meta, have shed tens of thousands of workers in recent weeks, citing a slowing economy, and some others have introduced hiring freezes. You need to spend only a little time on Blind — the go-to app for tech workers to find jobs and anonymously trade industry gossip
According to a recent survey by Statista, which highlights the gender imbalance in the tech industry, only 5% of all developers identify as women. So how do you succeed in an industry where you might be the only woman on the entire team? We decided to ask our network for their best advice. This quick
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