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HP Asian Indian Employees Network
The HP Asian Indian Employees Network was inaugurated in June 1996 with an elaborate ceremony at HP’s Palo Alto headquarters. The festivities included a traditional Indian dance performed by software ...
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HP at Fourth Tokyo International Trade Fair
Two women worked the Hewlett-Packard exhibit at the Fourth Tokyo International Trade Fair. The booth featured a scale model of the company’s main plant. “The model plus the flanking color transparenci ...
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HP Avondale Division and FAME
Many HP diversity initiatives launched at the local level. In 1978, the Avondale division began participating in FAME, the Forum to Advance Minorities in Engineering, which sought to provide education ...
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HP CEO Lew Platt Pushes for Inclusion
As CEO, Lew Platt was known for his deep commitment to making HP a more inclusive company for women and minorities. Part of that commitment stemmed from personal experience. Platt explained that after ...
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HP Discusses Equal Opportunity
In 1974, Hewlett-Packard leaders Bill Hewlett, Linda Standley and Paul Ely answered direct questions from employees about the company’s equal opportunity employment practices. Standley, who worked in ...
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HP Female Bowling Team
This team of female HP employees represented the company at the 40th Annual Women’s International Bowling Congress held in San Francisco in 1958. Made up of (from left) Dottie Lao, Dea Doebler, Betty ...
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HP Formalizes Nondiscrimination Policy
Hewlett-Packard operated on a policy of nondiscrimination from its beginnings, but in the early years the policy was unstated. On March 6, 1964, amid the tumult of the Civil Rights movement, Dave Pack ...
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HP Inclusive by Objective
Diversity became an explicit component of HP’s corporate objectives when it was included on page 11 of the 1989 edition. In discussing HP’s objectives regarding the treatment of employees, the company ...
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HP Teaches Assembly Techniques
At a time when few women were pursuing careers in tech, and fewer electronics companies were willing to hire women for fear of turnover, HP was actively training women for careers in the industry. Her ...
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HP Women Around The Globe
By the mid-1960s, Hewlett-Packard employed more than 2,600 women, making up 37 percent of the company’s total workforce. In 1964, the company profiled four of those women from around the world. The pi ...