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"Diversity and Inclusion" - 92 Total Result(s)
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Equal Opportunity Focus at HP
The 1960s brought a new scrutiny to race and inequality in the United States. Dave Packard explained to managers what this climate meant for Hewlett-Packard Company, an organization that always abhorr ...
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First Woman on HP’s Board
Shirley Hufstedler (center) lived a trailblazing life. Her accomplishments included serving as the only woman among 120 Superior Court judges in California, the first United States Secretary of Educat ...
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Formalizing LGBTQ+ Representation
The HP Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Employee Network (GLEN) was among the first resource groups to receive an official charter from HP, and the informal networks that preceded it went back to the 1970s, ...
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Front and Center: Product Assembly
Barbara Brown and June Wessel worked on pre-fab assemblies in Hewlett-Packard’s recently constructed Stanford Unit no. 2, one of the company’s first facilities at Stanford Research Park. The new facil ...
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Getting Technical: Women Technicians
In the 1970s, more women found opportunities to work in technical roles, an area traditionally dominated by men across the industry. Women made up 11 percent of all Hewlett-Packard technicians by 1978 ...
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Gladys Anenson: HP’s First Female Machinist
Gladys Anenson was Hewlett-Packard Company’s first female machinist and department supervisor. She arrived at the company in 1943, starting with a brief stint assembling small parts. Impressed by her ...
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Global Inclusion
As HP’s understanding of diversity increased, it began developing special programs for specific regions. In Malaysia, for example, HP actively recruited members of an indigenous ethnic group that was ...
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Helen Vogue: Receptionist & Columnist
Women at Hewlett-Packard Company in the 1940s worked in all sorts of positions, from administration to production, and found outlets for their talents within the company culture as well as in executin ...
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Hewlett-Packard and Project HIRED
HP was an active partner of Project HIRED (Helping Industry Recruit Employees with Disabilities), a Bay Area nonprofit dedicated to helping people with disabilities find work. Worldwide EEO manager Ha ...
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Hiring Diverse Interns at HP
HP actively worked to increase the diversity of its workforce through participation in programs with colleges and universities. These programs invited promising women and minority students like MIT st ...