Closing tech's diversity gap: The conversation on Twitter

Elizabeth Weise

USA TODAY

Maxine Williams, Facebook's global head of diversity, gestures on a panel on tech diversity. To her left is Nancy Lee, director of people operations at Google.

Tech companies are recognizing their workforces are underrepresented with women and minorities. How should they close that gap? USA TODAY and Stanford University's Stanford Law School are holding a panel Thursday evening to discuss the issue.

Under debate: Whether it's more a problem of outright racism or unconscious bias; why companies seem to have trouble hiring blacks, Latinos and women graduated from university engineering programs; and whether diversity quotas work.

A panel sponsored by USA TODAY and Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance discussed closing the diversity gap in tech. From left: USA TODAY Editor-in-Chief David Callaway, Stanford Law School Professor Richard Thompson Ford, Vyv Co-Founder Laura Gomez, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Nancy Lee, Google's director in people operations, and Maxine Williams, global head of diversity at Facebook

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