Workforce diversity at online companies - Statistics & Facts
The technology industry is characterized by its constant strive for innovation, growth, and progress. It is, however, also coined by significant disparities in relation to its workforce along gender, race, and ethnicity lines. A closer look at the employee demographics of some of today’s leading online companies reveals a distinct underrepresentation of women and minorities across most computing-related occupations. This issue was made public in 2014, when Google and other Silicon Valley tech titans released their first diversity reports, breaking down their respective workforces by race and gender. These reports illustrated that the companies’ employees were predominantly white or Asian American men, and despite increased efforts at diversifying its labor force, the tech sector is still skewed towards these groups many years later.
