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• The Problem With Diversity in Computing — Ian Bogost (The Atlantic)

• Eight Ways to Make Your D&I Efforts Less Talk and More Walk — Aubrey Blanche (First Round)

• Why is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women? — Liza Mundy (The Atlantic)

• Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs? — Michael Gee (Harvard Business Review)

• Tech jobs: Minorities have degrees, but don’t get hired — Elizabeth Weise and Jessica Guynn (USA Today)

• When Women Stopped Coding — Steve Henn (NPR)

• Cracking the Gender Code — Accenture

• Essential guide to hiring diverse development teams — Mitch Pronschinske (Tech Beacon)

• Why Tech Degrees Are Not Putting More Blacks and Hispanics Into Tech Jobs — Quoctrung Bui and Claire Cain Miller (The New York Times)

• Tech Companies Delay Diversity Reports to Rethink Goals — Georgia Wells (The Wall Street Journal)

• Google Makes Slow Progress in Diversifying Its Workforce — Jack Nicas (The Wall Street Journal)

• Why Silicon Valley Is Failing Miserably At Diversity, And What Should Be Done About It — Salvador Rodriguez (International Business Times)