Disclosure proposals, which stockholders vote on, are calling on tech companies to release workforce breakdowns to get leaders to focus on diversity.
Will Evans
Senior Reporter and Producer
Will Evans is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal, covering labor and tech. His reporting has prompted government investigations, legislation, reforms and prosecutions. A series on working conditions at Amazon warehouses was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won a Gerald Loeb Award. His work has also won multiple Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, including for a series on safety problems at Tesla. Other investigations have exposed secret spying at Uber, illegal discrimination in the temp industry and rampant fraud in California's drug rehab system for the poor. Prior to joining The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2005, Evans was a reporter at The Sacramento Bee. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Posted inInequality, Silicon Valley Diversity
Silicon Valley diversity data: Who released theirs, who didn’t
We surveyed 211 of the largest Silicon Valley tech companies that were required to submit EEO-1 diversity reports to the federal government for 2016.
Posted inInequality, Silicon Valley Diversity, Worked Over
Hidden figures: How Silicon Valley keeps diversity data secret
Silicon Valley companies had many reasons for withholding the data, including Yelp’s diversity officer, who called it “probably not very interesting.”
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Posted inInequality, Silicon Valley Diversity, Worked Over
How we analyzed Silicon Valley tech companies’ diversity data
As of Oct. 19, 2017, we have been able to obtain EEO-1 reports from 23 of those companies.
Posted inAccountability, Impact, Inequality, Worked Over, Workers’ Rights
Illinois temp workers win new protections
An advocate says the new law protecting temp workers was in part due to a 2016 investigation by Reveal.
Posted inAccountability, Inequality, Returning Home to Battle, The Trump Era, Workers’ Rights
Trump civil rights nominee called allowing women in combat ‘laughable’
An Iraq War veteran nominated by Trump to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says he has since changed his mind about women in combat.
Posted inInequality, Religion and Government, The Trump Era
Woman who fought Abercrombie: ‘I feel like we are taking a step backward’
The woman who took her discrimination case to the Supreme Court calls Eric Dreiband’s nomination to a DOJ post “a step backward.”
Posted inThe Trump Era
Steel firm that stayed on Trump council until the end knows about racism
A federal court said racial discrimination at Nucor was highly offensive. The company’s CEO was a member of Trump’s disbanded manufacturing council.
Posted inInequality, Techsploitation
Has Google increased representation of women? Not so much
There is a mistaken but entrenched belief that the tech industry is based on pure meritocracy, says Caroline Simard, senior director of research at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Government Workers, The Trump Era
Jack Abramoff: Trump Labor Department nominee ‘very ethical person’
Patrick Pizzella, President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy labor secretary, has one endorsement he may not want. Jack Abramoff, the infamous lobbyist who went to prison for fraud and corruption, called Pizzella “a very ethical person” in an interview with Reveal.