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Pinterest's diverse workforce helped it design a better skin tone filter
Last April, Pinterest began testing a search feature that allows users to filter results by skin tone. The idea being that those looking for beauty tips will be able to find relevant makeup and hair advice, regardless of their race. Today, the company is announcing that this feature will roll out more broadly across its user base, and that it's also coming to its mobile app. Not only is it a particularly useful feature, it's also emblematic of Pinterest's ever-growing efforts at increasing the diversity and inclusion within the company.
Pinterest hires its first diversity chief
The US tech industry has had some success in diversifying its workers, but many companies know there's still more work to be done... including those that hadn't made it a high priority until recently. Pinterest has hired its first head of diversity, Candice Morgan, to build initiatives that will shake up the social site's workforce. She isn't the beginning of the company's efforts, as it set goals last summer and just started diversity-minded apprenticeship and internship programs. However, Morgan may be the key to coordinating and ramping up those programs.
