{"id":31117,"date":"2022-05-25T17:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grupobcc.com\/?p=31117"},"modified":"2022-05-25T17:18:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:18:27","slug":"adriana-gascoigne-silicon-valleys-diversity-problem-holds-tech-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grupobcc.com\/en\/news\/adriana-gascoigne-silicon-valleys-diversity-problem-holds-tech-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Adriana Gascoigne: \u201cSilicon Valley\u2019s  diversity problem holds tech back\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21775\" src=\"https:\/\/grupobcc.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Adriana-Gascoigne-speaker-conferencias-girls-in-tech-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Adriana Gascoigne speaker, conferencias, girls in tech\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grupobcc.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Adriana-Gascoigne-speaker-conferencias-girls-in-tech-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/grupobcc.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Adriana-Gascoigne-speaker-conferencias-girls-in-tech.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>We share with you a post published in Los Angeles Times in which you can learn more about Adriana Gascoigne:<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">&#8220;This is an industrywide problem: Among Silicon Valley\u2019s largest companies, the percentage of Hispanic\/Latinx employees working in technology positions is still absurdly low. Apple, the largest tech company, reports that\u00a08%\u00a0of its U.S. tech workforce identified as Hispanic\/Latinx in 2020. At Microsoft, that number is\u00a07%. Google has more detailed data, but it\u2019s depressing: Just\u00a01.8%\u00a0of its global tech workforce identifies as female and Hispanic\/Latinx. In contrast, Hispanic\/Latinx people compose\u00a019%\u00a0of the overall U.S. population and, crucially,\u00a051%\u00a0of America\u2019s population growth between 2010 and 2020.&#8221; (&#8230;)<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/how-your-culture-needs-change-hybrid-work-martin-lindstrom\/\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2022-03-07\/silicon-valley-diversity-representation-progress<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We share with you a post published in Los Angeles Times in which you can learn more about Adriana Gascoigne: &#8220;This is an industrywide problem: Among Silicon Valley\u2019s largest companies, the percentage of Hispanic\/Latinx employees working in technology positions is still absurdly low. Apple, the largest tech company, reports that\u00a08%\u00a0of its U.S. tech workforce identified&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/grupobcc.com\/en\/news\/adriana-gascoigne-silicon-valleys-diversity-problem-holds-tech-back\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Adriana Gascoigne: \u201cSilicon Valley\u2019s  diversity problem holds tech back\u201d\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just\u00a01.8%\u00a0of its global tech workforce identifies as female and Hispanic\/Latinx.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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