Google workers predominantly male and white, rare peek shows
Source: San Jose Mercury News
If you care about the diversity of the tech industry, then Google deserves credit for releasing the demographics of its workforce, which it did for the first time Wednesday.
Not so much for the numbers themselves, which illustrate how far the company has to go to create a truly diverse workforce, but for its willingness to shed light on the issue.
While the company offered some detailed statistics, they are easy to sum up: Google is still mostly a white male tribe, especially in tech jobs and leadership roles. Google's employee make-up is 61 percent white nationwide and 71 percent male, while 72 percent of what it calls its U.S. "leadership" is white, and men hold 83 percent of tech jobs around the world.
... At Google, Hispanics and African-Americans combined make up just 3 percent of the firm's technical workers in the U.S. ... Asians comprise 34 percent of Google's workforce nationally. ... But in Silicon Valley, 50.1 percent of tech workers are Asian. ... Globally, female Google employees hold 17 percent of the tech jobs at the firm, low compared to the 20 to 23 percent norm at top technology firms, said Telle Whitney, chief executive and president of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
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