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For many years tech companies have been really good at innovation and making money.

What they've been less good at is in hiring and keeping a diverse workforce.

In the past few months, frequent reports of Silicon Valley's rocky relationship with women

have fumbled to the surface.

Very few women and non-Asian people of color in engineering.

Their diversity or lack of diversity and what they plan on doing to tackle it.

Many companies have gone to great lengths to study the problem and to address it.

Google for example spends tens of millions of dollars every year on efforts to recruit more women and people of color.

Some of that money went to produce this video.

Make it really clear. We want to see more women in senior leadership positions.

We want to see more people from underrepresented groups because it makes us a better company.

While there are recruitment success stories in Silicon Valley, the overall results have been dismal.

Many women, African Americans and Latinos, see a tech is unwelcoming to them.

Some have filed discrimination lawsuits against their companies.

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