Facebook's Diversity Report Discloses Primarily White Male Workforce
Kristina Fernandez | | Jun 26, 2014 12:44 AM EDT |
Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, became the latest tech giant to publish its workforce diversity data Wednesday, revealing an overwhelmingly white male composition.
Facebook's disclosure of its workforce diversity comes at the heels of Google's and Yahoo's recent reports on their diversity figures. And like the two Silicon Valley giants, Facebook's lopsided figures paint a clear picture of white men dominating the tech industry landscape.
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69 percent of the company's workforce is male with the number shooting up to about 85% at the core tech employees level, comprising mostly of engineers.
Among the senior level employees, the numbers are no better.
The tech giant pegs its senior managers at 77 percent male, 74 percent of which are white while 19 percent are Asian. The rest comprise of 4 percent Hispanic, 2 percent black and 3 percent of two or more races.
In the US alone, the company is already comprised of 57 percent white workforce with the remainder divided between Asians (34 percent), Hispanic (4 percent) and black (2 percent).
The percentage of the white employees slightly drop at the tech level in which 53 percent of the entire workforce are white; Asian engineers rise to about 43 percent. Non-tech jobs, however, are shared at a nearly equal level between male and female.
"At Facebook, diversity is essential to achieving our mission," wrote Maxine Williams, Global Head of Diversity, on Facebook's blog post announcing the data.
She went on to say that Facebook has a long way to go but is "absolutely committed to achieving greater diversity at Facebook and across the industry.
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