Facebook unveils lopsided diversity figures, pledges to change

Menlo Park, Calif.-based social networking giant Facebook became the second major Silicon Valley firm to disclose diversity figures and pledge to hire more women and minorities after pressure on the white-male-dominated industry continues to mount.

The figures are similar to ones Google presented in May, according to Fox Business.

At Facebook, the workforce is 69 percent men and 31 percent women. By ethnicity, it is dominated 57 per cent by white people. Asians make up 34 percent of the Facebook staff, while Hispanics and Blacks come in at just 4 percent and 2 percent, respectively.

“As these numbers show, we have more work to do – a lot more,” Facebook’s global head of diversity, Maxine Williams, said in a blogpost. “But the good news is that we’ve begun to make progress.”

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