Former Director of Global Diversity and Work/Life Emily Duncan shares her perspective on how Hewlett-Packard embraced diversity efforts under CEO Lew Platt in the 1990s.

Marjorie Kidd, Barbara Ames and others worked in the Drafting Department during the war years. A separate issue of Watt’s Current ran a profile on Ames (second from right), noting that she was “indeed ...

HP’s employee resource groups drove and informed much of the company’s diversity programming. Since 1974, the Black Employees Forum had sponsored an annual African American Students Day to encourage s ...

In 1988, the Corporate Offices cafeteria in Palo Alto hosted the first HP Technical Women’s Conference. Over 400 attendees enjoyed presentations by HP management, professional development sessions, te ...

Willard Jones was Hewlett-Packard Company’s earliest-known African American employee, having joined the company by December 1943. Jones’ position with the company isn’t clear, but he clearly fit right ...

Challenging mid-century notions of women’s work, female employees at the Palo Alto production facility often worked with heavy machinery.

Women and men employees worked closely together across department lines throughout the 1950s. In 1956, for example, the women of the Pre-Fab Department stepped in to help the Machine Shop’s Waveguide ...

Women employees have been a part of Hewlett-Packard since the beginning, starting just months after the company’s founding in 1939 when Hewlett-Packard hired its first female employee as a secretary. ...

Women have worked at Hewlett-Packard facilities in Idaho since the 1970s, when the company first set up operations for the Boise Division of the Computer Systems Group in 1973. Within three years, nea ...

In 1978, only 0.5 percent of HP’s U.S. managers were women. By 1985, that percentage had increased to 6.2 percent thanks to the recruitment and promotion of women like Carolyn Ticknor (pictured), then ...