How to fight Amazon before you turn 29 years old? Lina Khan is changing how we think about corporate power—and Amazon’s power, in particular. She has a novel theory about monopolies—and her sights are set squarely on the company.
If we become adults who explicitly oppose racism, as do many, we often organize our identity around a denial of our racially based privileges that reinforce racist disadvantage for others. What is particularly problematic about this contradiction is that white people’s moral objection to racism increases their resistance to acknowledging complicity with it.
Mattel partnered with Tynker to create free coding lessons that star the new Robotics Engineer Barbie. A tutorial teaches you how to animate a robot on the screen by snapping together puzzle-shaped commands. It’s the latest Tynker Hour of Code activity, and it’s designed to be simple enough for kindergarteners to use. Mattel also has an e-book workbook called “Code Camp for Barbie and Friends,” showing kids how coding relates to everyday life and problem-solving in various careers.
There is a narrowing staircase to the top, except for white employees. Asian employees make up a greater share of Silicon Valley’s professional workforce than other minority groups, but their representation decreases at the managerial and executive levels. White women have poor overall representation in the tech industry, but their percentages are relatively consistent across levels, reports
The new show will be called “Daria & Jodie” – to be written by Grace Edwards (who’s worked on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Inside Amy Schumer). The show will be based on the classic animated character Daria Morgendorrfer and her friend Jodie Landon as they “take on the world” and deal with cultural issues that are relevant today.
Provide challenging and higher-level responsibilities to help women develop confidence in their potential, enhance their social networks and profiles; women became more firmly embedded in the engineering community.
Asian Americans are the least likely racial group to be promoted into Silicon Valley’s management and executive levels, even though they are the most likely to be hired into high-tech jobs. This was a key finding in a 2017 report we coauthored for the Ascend Foundation (“The Illusion of Asian Success”), analyzing EEOC data on Silicon Valley’s management pipeline.
Three of the 10 highest-paid chief executives of S&P 500 companies were women – a first in the 28-year-history of WSJ’s CEO compensation report. Still, only 5% of S&P 500 companies have a woman at the helm. The major takeaway is the importance of pay transparency. Professor Vishal Gupta of the University of Mississippi, one of the study’s authors, surmises that the pay gap at the top may have narrowed because the chief executive role is so publicly prominent. “We think it is a visibility issue,” he said. “[Executive pay] is highly visible to all the stakeholders.”
Nikki Katz’s CODE: Rosie program gives employees already well into their careers the chance to reinvent themselves as software engineers.
Salinas High School sophomore Stephanie Tena, age 16, is passionate about coding and AI, and she is working on a project that uses these skills to detect contamination in water sources. Women make up one-quarter of computer scientists. But in the field of artificial intelligence those numbers are likely much lower.
