Facebook Seeks to Improve Diversity
Two-thirds of Facebook employees are men and more than half are white, the company said in annual hiring statistics released Thursday. Among its entire workforce, 52 percent are white, 38 percent Asian, 4 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black. One-third…
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are women. The company’s senior leadership is 71 percent white, 21 percent Asian, 3 percent black and 3 percent Hispanic. And 73 percent of senior leadership are men, it said. Facebook said 7 percent of employees responding to a survey self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender or asexual. Facebook said 61 percent of employees responded to the voluntary survey about sexual orientation and gender identity. Facebook said it’s doing better at increasing diversity, with new senior leadership hires over the past 12 months including 9 percent black, 5 percent Hispanic and 29 percent women. Over the next five years, Facebook will donate $15 million to Code.org, which provides computer science education to historically underrepresented populations, it said. Facebook said it will encourage recruiters to strive for more diversity, promote an inclusive working environment and support tech education among underrepresented populations.