"Quarter of U.S. tech workers perceive discrimination: survey", 8 Feb 2017

About a quarter of U.S. workers in the technology sector, which has faced criticism for a lack of diversity, said they felt discrimination at their workplace in a survey released on Tuesday by job site Indeed.com.  The survey of 1,002 U.S. tech sector workers, conducted in December, found that 24 percent said they felt they had been discriminated against at their current companies due to their race, gender, age, religion or sexual orientation...Some 29 percent of female respondents said they experienced discrimination compared with 21 percent of men.  Some 32 percent of Asian and nonwhite employees said they were discriminated against, versus 22 percent of white employees...Over the last three years Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Apple Inc and other major tech companies have released employee demographic data, adjusted recruiting strategies and offered training on unconscious bias. [Raj Mukherjee, senior vice president of product at Indeed said] that companies should make greater efforts to include current employees in its diversity initiative, since 57 percent of respondents said they did not know what actions their company is taking to address the issue.  An additional 25 percent did not believe their companies were taking any action...