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Silicon Valley Tech Workforce Is Vastly Different From US, Say Feds (computerworld.com)
Reader dcblogs shares an article on Computer World: In recent years, major high-tech firms have started releasing workforce diversity data, along with a promise to improve. And there is much room for improvement, according to federal officials. Among the top 75 Silicon Valley tech firms, whites make up 47% of the workforce, Asian Americans 41%, Hispanics, 6% and African Americans 3%, according to an analysis by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Women account for 30% of the workforce at these 75 firms. The diversity makeup of these Silicon Valley high-tech firms is very different from the national employment picture. When compared to overall private industry employment, the tech sector nationally -- not just Silicon Valley -- employed a larger share of whites (63% to 68%), as well as a larger share of Asian Americans (6% to 14%) and a smaller share of African Americans (14% to 7%) and Hispanics (14% to 8%). Employers with a workforce greater than 100 file reports to the EEOC about their employees' race, color, gender and national origin. Nationally, 64% of the employees in high-tech are men versus 52% in the broader workforce. Women account for 36% of the tech workforce, versus comprising 48% of the broader workforce.
In other findings, federal officials say that the IQ level of Silicon Valley workers is significantly higher than employees in the rest of the country. "We cannot determine the reasons for that, and are continuing our studies to determine the root cause", said one spokesman.
at the end of the day there's a continent called Asia, if your ethnic background is from there then you're Asian.
By the logic of literalism, Azerbaijanis are "Caucasian" since the Caucasus mountains cut through Azerbaijan, while English people are not. People in the southern suburbs of Istanbul and the people in the northern suburbs speak the same language, worship the same God, have identical cultures, and are genetically indistinguishable. Nobody would consider them separate races or ethnicities just because they are on different continents. And only Frosty the Snowman is literally "white".
You clearly have not met people who are albino.
Albinos are not white. They are pink.