21st century companies and institutions realized the need of embracing diversity and inclusion in their workforce and recruitment plans. This paper addresses the issues of diversity in the case of Silicon Valley Technology Companies in the United States. The key concepts around which this paper is build are an extensive definition of diversity, the history of equality in the US education system and statistics regarding the degree of minority persence in the Silicon Valley, with a focus on the technology companies. The paper also outlines the correlation between the level of minority presence and the female graduates of technical educational institutions in Silicon Valley.