For years tech firms like Google have resisted providing data on the diversity of their workforces. Companies like Google and Yahoo hid behind the excuse that such information was a trade secret. Now we know why Google fought so hard to hide the racial and gender makeup of its workforce: only 2% of its workforce is black and women are woefully underrepresented. If Google was really serious about increasing diversity in its workforce, it would have started working on diversity years ago when it was first confronted on the issue. Google's hiring practices suggest that a wider discussion about racism among Nerds and Geeks is long overdue. As Eric Ware points out, "Geek racism appears to be a growing trend that is picking up steam and becoming more vocal based on social media trends." —Ronald David Jackson
Only 2% of Google's American Workforce Is Black
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The technology industry is frequently thought of as a place that’s heavily white and male, and often unfriendly, if not hostile, to women. Google took a look at its own diversity record and released the data to NewsHour and in a blog post, and it confirms many fears.
According to the data, women make up 30 percent of the company’s total workforce, and 21 percent of its leadership. Only 17 percent of its technology employees are women. It’s data that the company hasn’t released before, and much more than others in the tech industry have made available.
Only two percent of the company’s total U.S. workforce is black, and three percent is Hispanic. Asians are comparatively overrepresented given their share of the U.S. population, making up 30 percent of the company’s American employees.
The gap is most acute among the company’s tech workers. Here’s the full breakdown of the company’s technology-specific workforce, which at Google mostly means engineers. The top two gender numbers are global, and the race numbers are from the U.S. only:
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