The quest to achieve diversity and inclusion in the tech industry is still in full swing. In the past year, we’ve seen some progress made on the D&I front, but not without hiccups along the way. Believe it or not, people are still racist! And sexist! And homophobic! And transphobic!
Among leading tech firms in Silicon Valley, 57 percent of executive employees were white, 36 percent were Asian American, 1.6 percent were Hispanic and less than 1 percent were black, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity’s first-ever diversity in tech report, which came out in May. Among the total employed at top Silicon Valley tech companies, 47 percent were white, 30 percent were women, 41 percent were Asian American, 3 percent were black and 6 percent were Hispanic.
As yet another year comes to an end, TechCrunch is taking you on a little trip down memory, where you can relive the best and the worst moments in the tech industry’s attempt to diversify its workforce and include people of all different shapes, sizes, colors and abilities.
