After much pressure, Twitter was forced to release its workplace diversity figures, and it is what we've come to expect. The company is filled with mostly white and Asian males, and this is very similar to other top tech companies in the United States.
As it stands right now, nearly 90 percent of Twitter's workforce are white or Asian. To put this in perspective, more than 90 percent of the technology jobs in the United States are home to whites or Asians, which goes to show that a lot needs to be done if this so-called diversity problem will ever be fixed.
At Twitter, men make up 70 percent of the staff, while women could only manage 30 percent, according to Janet Van Huysse, the company's vice president for diversity and inclusion.
"At Twitter, we have a goal to reach every person on the planet. We believe that goal is more attainable with a team that understands and represents different cultures and backgrounds," according to Janet Van Huysse.
In recent times, diversity has become a hot subject for several Silicon Valley companies, which forced them to reveal the inner workings of their workforce. Every single one of these companies that revealed diversity figures have pledged to do what it takes to make things better in the future.
In recent months, companies such as Yahoo, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn, revealed diversity figures, and the issue of whites, Asians, and males dominating the workforce is the same. They make up around 88 percent to 91 percent of these companies workforce, and change doesn't appear to be on the horizon.
Blacks and Hispanics are at the bottom of the pile in the technology workforce. At Twitter, three percent of the company's workforce is made up of Hispanics while only two percent of the workforce is made up of blacks.
Some view these statistics as troubling since blacks and Hispanics are known to purchase a lot of technology related products, and are regular users of social media websites. They believe that since blacks, Hispanics take part in technology by purchasing products, and using services, they should benefit by reaping some of the economic rewards.
