"I want to build beautiful things the world wants to use." So said an application to an internship program with Girls Who Code, a national group that encourages young women to consider careers in computer science.
Lots of women want to code, design, and be part of the communications/Internet/Web/mobile world. So do lots of people from all sorts of racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds.
Problem: That world is a male shop. A white male shop. Always has been.
As a report released Wednesday by Twitter Inc. makes clear, the tech workplace is not diverse. It's predominantly male and predominantly white, though significantly Asian.
Twitter says its non-tech staff is pretty much 50-50. But then, overall staff is 70 percent male, leadership is 79 percent, and the tech staff is 90 percent. Nine guys for every lady. Which is, by the way, the ratio for the entire U.S. tech workforce. READ MORE
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