United States: Silicon Valley in a hurry to combat discrimination

50 years after the antidiscrimination laws that put an end to segregation passed, former civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has gotten internet giants such as Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo! or Facebook to publish their rather inglorious diversity statistics. Others keep on resisting. But pressure doesn’t seem about to increase and businesses seem willing to make efforts.
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Whereas the United States are about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the antidiscrimination laws that put an end to segregation, several internet giants decided, since last month, to publish the composition of their workforce. Google started this trend via a kind of mea culpa on May 28. With 70 percent of men and 61 percent of white people, the company “is miles from where we want to be,” Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President, People Operations, wrote in a blog post that generated hundreds of

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