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

Posted by msmash on from the inside-facebook dept.

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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  1. And? by s.petry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you set a goal you can't achieve why are you surprised? Facts matter, people should really go back to using them.

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    1. Re:And? by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You just don't understand. " ....while black employees accounted for 3% of its US senior leadership,... Clearly this isn't PC. So more blacks must be hired and put into these positions, even if we are not capable of doing the work. Sheesh, next thing you're likely to criticize the quota system that pushed through colleges and universities the many black students who displaced more qualified white students and call it racist, even though some of those receiving degrees are still not capable of doing the work. White people must stop using the ability to actually do the work as a racist way to keep the black man down, it should be enough that we were pushed through the system and given a token diploma.

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  2. Hire the best or not? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who cares about race or gender? Hire the best. If only 3% are black, should they hire someone less qualified just to meet a quota? That's bullshit. Try being the best instead.

  3. Age discrimination by BradMajors · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  4. Re:Racism or availability? by liquid_schwartz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can't be one of the guys while simultaneously being a protected class that can start a witch hunt off of any stray comment or misinterpreted comment. Indeed, with the microagression BS even casual conversation can be a problem. It's completely unsurprising that given today's state of cultural McCarthyism people are profession but not personable. SJW - you created this problem but I doubt you can fix it.