Not too long after Google released its workplace diversity statistics, proving that White and Asian males dominate the tech industry at Silicon Valley, Yahoo came out with a similar statistic that shows the same thing, unsurprisingly.
The big difference with Yahoo's workplace diversity compared to Google, is the amount of women employed. Based on a blog post by Yahoo, around 37 percent of the company's 12,000 global workforce are women, and 62 percent are male. Furthermore, only 27 percent of the leadership positions in the company are women.
Yahoo did not provide much commentary on the statistics it released, but did say that it is committed to attracting and develop a diverse workforce.
"We're in the business of building products for hundreds of millions of users worldwide and that starts with having the best possible talent -- a Yahoo team that understands and reflects our diverse user base," said Jacqueline Reses, Yahoo's chief development officer.
In addition, Yahoo shows that 50 percent of its global workforce are predominantly White, while 39 percent are Asians and 4 percent Hispanic. The remaining 2 percent is black; another 2 percent is mixed race, and 2 percent falls under other.
In the United States, 37 percent of White folks and 57 percent of Asians hold tech positions at Yahoo. Furthermore, leadership positions in the United States are shockingly 78 percent White.
While some companies choose to reveal their workforce diversity statistics, not every company in Silicon Valley believes it is important to do so. Facebook hasn't done so as of yet, and there's a chance it might not happen for quite some time.
Mercury News once tried to get data for Silicon Valley's 15 largest companies through Freedom of Information Act requests, and it took a long time for any progress to be made. After everything was said and done, the data Mercury got its hands on was a disappointing 5 years old.
It may take years or even decades for Silicon Valley to come clean, but with Google, Yahoo and Intel leading the charge on this issue, there's a chance things might change in the short term.
