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On Thursday, social network giant Facebook released its annual employee diversity report. Based on the report filed by Facebook, majority of the company's workforce is composed of white and male employees.
According to The Drum, 68 percent of the Facebook's entire workforce are male. Additionally, 55 percent of the company's entire staff are white employees.
Based on the statistics, 36 percent of Facebook's employees in the United States are Asian. Four percent are Hispanic and only two percent are African American employees.
The disparity is even bigger in the tech department. Hispanic and African American employees only comprise three and one percent, respectively, of the company's tech staff. On the other hand, Asian employees are reported to hold 43 percent of tech roles in the company.
There is also a considerable amount of ethnicity gap when it comes to Facebook's senior leadership roles. White people holds 73 percent of the entire senior staff. Asian employees account for 21 percent of the entire senior staff while Hispanics and African Americans accounted for three and two percent, respectively.
On the gender side, 32 percent of Facebook's entire workforce are women and 16 percent of them holds tech roles. Additionally, 23 percent of Facebook's senior staff are women.
According to NDTV Gadgets, Facebook saw a significant improvement in women's role in the non-tech department. Women employees now hold 52 percent of Facebook's non-tech operation, an increase from 47 percent reported in 2014.
Facebook Global Director of Diversity Maxine Williams posted the report on Facebook Newsroom saying, "Cognitive diversity, or diversity of thought, matters because we are building a platform that currently serves 1.4 billion people around the world."
