Google is Not That International As It Wants to Be
Today, when it comes to employment strategy, everyone becomes extremely concerned about moving towards ethnic and social equality and Google is very sad that it can't keep up to the trend. Google's workplace diversity figures were disclosed at the annual shareholders meeting where the Rainbow PUSH diversity coalition was present.
The overall statistics show that there are three women among every ten Googlers. But if we go into detail, the gap gets even wider with 83% of tech positions and 79% of leadership positions given to men. Only non-tech professions enjoy comparative equality in gender ratio. Among ethnic minorities, Asians get the largest share, but still it doesn't get over 35%.
The situation with other ethnic groups is even worse, as you may see on the charts above
Google regrets its fault of «being not where [it wants] to be», but the corporation justifies itself by stating that there are, guess what, not enough women and minorities in the world of tech. And, as follows from the US National Science Foundation statistics, that is true: less than 18% of all computer science degrees in the US are earned by women and only about 10% of Blacks and Hispanics get a CS college degree.
The giant is being very 'open' by revealing the information about its workplace diversity, as most of the companies prefer to refrain from going into detail on the matter. And the situation is pretty bad not only for Google, according to the CNN Money poll. Still, we can do justice to Google - their move may encourage other companies to pay attention to the problem. The tech giant hopes that going public will pay up in a long term and help it «recruit and develop the world’s most talented and diverse people».
