Costs and Consequences

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• Apple promised an expansive health app, so why can’t I track menstruation? — Arielle Duhaime-Ross (The Verge)

• Twitter’s Evan Williams says trolling could have been curbed early on if more women had been on staff from the start — Emily Change (LinkedIn)

• Snapchat faces backlash over filter that promotes racist stereotypes of Asians — Sam Levin (The Guardian)

• Why Can’t This Soap Dispenser Identify Dark Skin? — Sidney Fussell (Gizmodo)

• Facebook’s real name policy — which failed to realize the importance of privacy concerns of people from marginalized groups — was so controversial, there’s an extensive Wikipedia page about it.

• Google Walkout: Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment — Daisuke Wakabayashi, Erin Griffith, Amie Tsang, and Kate Conger (The New York Times)

• Here’s what happens to a startup after a sexual harrassment scandal — Lizette Chapman (Bloomberg)

• A lack of diversity isn’t just a social problem — it hurts firms’ profits — Liana Brinded (Quartz)

• Embattled San Francisco VC firm will shut down fund after harassment scandal — Riley McDermid (San Francisco Business Times)

• Founders Of Silicon Valley Firm That Imploded Amid Sex Harassment Allegations Are Now Fighting Each Other — Nathan Vardi (Forbes)

• The Chilling Reason Behind Travis Kalanick’s Abrupt Resignation From Uber — Nick Bilton (Vanity Fair)

• Github Founder Resigns After Investigation — Claire Cain Miller (The New York Times)

• Here’s What Happens to a Startup After a Sexual Harassment Scandal Lizette Chapman (Bloomberg)

• Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity — Stefanie K. Johnson and David R. Hekman (HBR)

• You don’t know what you don’t know: How our unconscious minds undermine the workplace — Laszlo Bock and Brian Welle (Google)