Following the footsteps of other companies in the technology industry, Twitter has released a workforce diversity report for the company's employees.
The report reveals that the workforce diversity of Twitter also follows the trend that can be seen in other technology companies, with employees being mostly white or Asian males.
The report was released in the official blog of Twitter, wherein Twitter Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Janet Van Huysse wrote that the company's goal of reaching every individual in the world will be attained easier with a diverse workforce.
"To that end, we are joining some peer companies by sharing our ethnic and gender diversity data. And like our peers, we have a lot of work to do," Van Huysse wrote, before revealing the findings of the report.
The report reveals that 70 percent of Twitter's employees all over the world are male, and within the technology sector, the figure increases to 90 percent. Women are better represented in the non-technology positions in the company, with 50 percent of the positions being held by women. In leadership positions, only 21 percent are held by women.
In terms of ethnicity, 59 percent of Twitter's employees in the United States are white and 29 percent are Asian. In the technology sector, the percentage of Asians increased to 34 percent while white employees decrease slightly to 58 percent. The non-technology sector is the most diverse within the company, with 13 percent being held by non-white, non-Asian employees. However, white individuals dominate the leadership positions at 72 percent.
Van Huysse adds that, as the leader of the company's human resources for four years, she moves on to her position to focus on creating a diverse workforce for the company.
Van Huysse also enumerates the several employee-led groups that are pushing diversity in Twitter, which include SWAT (super women at Twitter), WomEng (women in engineering), TwUX (Twitter women in design), TwitterOpen (LGBTQ employees), Blackbird (employees of color) and Alas (employees of Latin descent).
Twitter's WomEng was honored earlier in the year by Gender Equality Principles Initiative, which is a public-private collaborative in San Francisco.
"We are keenly aware that Twitter is part of an industry that is marked by dramatic imbalances in diversity - and we are no exception," Huysse concludes, adding that the company is prioritizing to increase the diversity in the business.
Other technology companies that have released workforce diversity reports in the past include Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook.
