An internal 10-page long memo by former Google employee James Damore leaked on Monday sparked a heated debate about diversity in tech companies. According to , companies in the Silicon Valley like 鈥淕oogle, Facebook and Uber, have said they are trying to improve hiring and working conditions for women.鈥 Despite many efforts ranging from broad-ranged interviews of candidates to sponsored coding classes, internships and mandatory 鈥渦nconscious bias鈥 training sessions for employees, diversity numbers have barely changed at Google, found.
Here鈥檚 a look at Google鈥檚 current employee status: while women account for at least 48 percent of the workforce in the non-tech sector, only 20 percent make up Google鈥檚 tech division. The latter however is more diverse in ethnic terms since Whites do only have a slight majority (53 percent) over the non-tech sector (61 percent) and Asian employees take a much stronger hold in this area (39 percent vs 23 percent in non-tech).
Google's Current Employee Demographics

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This graphic shows the current gender and ethnicity range by selected categories.




















