Gender Diversity: Disturbing Images from Silicon Valley

Ruth McCambridge

June 3, 2014

June 2, 2014;Mother Jones

In light of the recent self-exposé by Google regarding its lack of diversity, here is a kind of anthropological essay on progress at Apple in two photos. These were tweeted by Dan Ackerman from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. This one was taken and broadcast last June:

And this one below is from this year:

He asks whether this can be seen as progress.

NPQ welcomes other such visual documents from readers as measures of change (or not).—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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