USA Today July 24, 2014 Jesse Jackson's PUSH coalition started campaign on Twitter for tech companies to reveal their race and gender hiring patterns, and called on Twitter to set targets and timetables, which is a politically correct way to ask for proportional quotas to fix the problem. In response, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter released numbers 3-4% Hispanic and 2% Blacks among employees, while 90% of Twitter's workers are white or Asian, and 90% of technology jobs in the U.S. are held by the two groups. AP reported "Twitter acknowledged Wednesday that it has been hiring too many white and Asian men to fill high-paying technology jobs", though there was no evidence that the proportions were any different from the qualified labor pool.
newsone: Google estimated 1 percent of its tech staff is Black and 2 percent Hispanic. Meanwhile, Asians make up whopping 34 percent of the company’s workforce, while 83 percent of its workers internationally are male Twitter’s silence is perplexing, given that Blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans account for 41 percent of U.S. users, making the platform more racially diverse than most social networks, including Facebook. Black people account for 18 percent of Twitter users, compared with 10 percent of Internet users overall, the Wall Street Journal recently reported.
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SAT percentile charts by race: http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/CR_M_%20W_PercentileRanksGenderEthnicGroups.pdf
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http://newsone.com/3040988/where-are-the-black-internet-workers-civil-rights-bigs-weigh-in/
jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are projected to grow by 17 percent by 2018, compared to 9.8 percent for jobs in other fields, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
That’s good and bad news for women and minorities, who are barely represented in one of the nation’s fastest growing job sectors.
It’s potential good news because it represents an abundance of opportunities for the American workforce, which as of 2012 was 47 percent female, 16 percent Hispanic, 2 percent Black and 12 percent Asian, according to numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Further, the technology sector could help reduce the outsize unemployment rate among Blacks in the U.S., which was 10.7 percent in June 2014, compared with a white unemployment rate of 5.3 percent. As National Urban League president and CEO Marc H. Morial noted in an interview with NewsOne, “There is no doubt that opening the doors much wider to technology jobs and technology opportunities is, in fact, a key to dealing with unemployment and the underemployment problem in the community.”
Under pressure, Google released diversity numbers in May after going years without revealing the figures. An estimated 1 percent of its tech staff is Black and 2 percent Hispanic. Meanwhile, Asians make up whopping 34 percent of the company’s workforce, while 83 percent of its workers internationally are male, according to USA Today.
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