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> Big tech is still dominated by white males at all levels of power. Whites (61% of US) are underrepresented at Twitter (42%) [1], Facebook (41%) [2], and in t
by rbecker 6y ago
> Big tech is still dominated by white males at all levels of power.
Whites (61% of US) are underrepresented at Twitter (42%) [1], Facebook (41%) [2], and in tech overall (~55%) [3]. Would you like to revise that statement?
Note the "heavy over-representation" mentioned in [3] is, according to the 3rd chart, ~18%. I.e. there are 1.18x as many whites in leadership positions as you'd expect compared to their under-represented numbers in tech overall. Compared to US demographics, the over-representation in leadership drops to a mere 6%. While the under-representation in overall tech is 9%. But strangely, that didn't merit a "whites heavily under-represented in tech" title.
[1] https://careers.twitter.com/en/tweep-life/diversity.html https://careers.twitter.com/en/tweep-life/diversity.html
[2] https://diversity.fb.com/read-report/ https://diversity.fb.com/read-report/
[3] https://hackernoon.com/white-employees-are-heavily-over-represented-in-tech-leadership-te1q3y9s https://hackernoon.com/white-employees-are-heavily-over-repr...