Facebook Makes Little Progress in Race and Gender Diversity (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader shares a Reuters report: Facebook has said about one-third of its workers are female, while black employees accounted for 3% of its US senior leadership, both numbers only slightly higher than a year earlier. The data released by the world's largest social network on Thursday reflects the scant progress made by Silicon Valley heavyweights in making their workplaces more diverse in the face of criticism for having mostly white, male workers. Last month, Alphabet's Google released data on diversity, saying it had more black, Latino and female employees but still lagged its goal of mirroring the population. Women represented 33% of Facebook's global workforce, according to data from 30 June, compared with 32% a year earlier. Women held 27% of senior leadership roles, up from last year's 23%.

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Re:Age discrimination

[Anonymous Coward]

While ignoring age discrimination. The chances of someone over 40 being hired by Facebook is zero.

Except for Kent Beck, right? https://www.linkedin.com/in/ke... says he was hired in 2011, when he was 50, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

Oh, and me, I started last year ago and I'm 43. I have numerous colleagues that are 40 and over, many of them relatively new. But glad you got your facts straight!

Re:Hire the best or not?

[guruevi]

That's because the statistic is false. Women typically make 98 cents on the dollar vs males when you compare actual positions and monthly paychecks. The 70 cent study has thoroughly been debunked, they were taking the aggregate income across a lifetime for the entire population - and yes, in our population there are plenty of women who have 0 income, not any employer's fault for them not applying for jobs.