Facebook's new diversity goals include an effort to double the number of females it employs globally over the next five years and to double the number of black and Latino employees it has in the U.S.
Facebook Inc. unveiled new diversity goals on Tuesday, including an effort to double the number of females it employs globally over the next five years and to double the number of black and Latino employees it has in the U.S.
“We envision a company where in five years, at least 50% of our workforce is made up of women, people who are black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islanders, people with two or more ethnicities, people with disabilities and veterans,” Maxine Williams, Facebook’s chief diversity officer, wrote in a blog post Tuesday., which details the ethnic and gender breakdown of its workforce. Williams said that reaching a target of 50% underrepresented employees in the U.S.
Facebook has 25 times more black female employees than it did in 2014, and the number of black male workers has increased tenfold in that time, Williams said in the blog. But black and Latino people hold just 5% of Facebook’s technical jobs in the U.S., up one percentage point from 2014. “We started nine years into our journey,” said Williams, who joined Facebook in 2013. “That was nine years too late. We have experienced how hard it is to make up for that ground.”
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