Why is Diversity so Important for Recruiting and How to Achieve it?

When going through LinkedIn’s data analysis, we can see that specifically in the tech industry, women occupy only 29% of the positions (while they comprise over 50% of the population). As for people of color, according to recent evidence, their presence in Silicon Valley has actually been decreasing in the past few years, and tech is not the only field failing to employ diversity hiring practices. Just as a form of reference, in the Fortune 500, there are fewer women CEOs (4.1%), than those who are named John (5.3%) or David (4.5%). And only 5 CEOs from the Fortune 500 are African-American.