Recently, I was speaking with a friend who is the CEO of an EdTech startup. She described how she had met with investors to close another funding round, spending weeks working with lawyers and accountants to gather the company financials in an attempt to win...
By now we’ve all heard about the importance of gender equality in the workplace. But believe it or not, many tech companies are still waking up to the idea that there’s a problem, even though in the last 20 years, the number of females working in technology has...
USING AI TO HELP COMPANIES GET MORE DIVERSEIlit Raz, CEO, of Joonko, is working to remove unconscious bias from hiring, so that companies can create inclusive workplaces. Her product, Joonko, offers real-time and company-wide diversity coaching using artificial...
Studies show that gender-diverse companies are 15% more likely to outperform compared to more homogeneous ones, while companies that are ethnically diverse are 35% more likely to outperform.Companies with more female leaders are also proven to be more profitable. In...
Women 2.0 interviews Michelle Suwannukul, Director of Culture and Engagement at Instacart, about her strategies for reducing unconscious bias and building a diverse team. “By diversity, we mean race, gender, sexual orientation and also diversity of thought. The...