From InfoWorld: Uber Technologies has agreed to provide next month its diversity data, which it had earlier declined to make public.
Representatives of the ride hailing company will disclose the information at the PUSHTech2020 summit on April 19 in Silicon Valley.
The move comes at a time when the company has run into a number of controversies, including sexism charges leveled by a former employee, the exit of some key executives, and a lawsuit from self-driving car rival Waymo.
The announcement follows a meeting Thursday between Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow Push Coalition, which has been demanding higher representation for minorities in tech companies, according to a statement issued by the coalition.
Jackson has prodded a number of companies including Google, Apple and Intel to reveal their diversity data, which have shown that women, Blacks and Latinos are underrepresented in tech companies in Silicon Valley.
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