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Few Latinos lead at Amazon

Amazon's diversity report tells a similar story as other technology-driven companies — many men and few Latinos.

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Amazon is the latest technology-driven company to following a summer of diversity reports from the likes of Google, Twitter, Apple and Facebook. As was the case with those companies, diversity is not a strong point.

Overall, the company’s workforce is 63 percent male. For managerial positions, that percentage increases so that just 25 percent of managers are women. And while overall, the company is 40 percent nonwhite — 13 percent Asian, 15 percent Black and 9 percent Latino — its managerial workforce is 71 percent white, 18 percent Asian, 4 percent Black and 4 percent Latino.

The company hasn’t released diversity statistics of its workers on the backend of the site. For similar tech-driven companies, the workforce of software engineers, analysts and programmers is typically even more male-dominated with fewer nonwhite workers. The report also failed to include the specific demographics for those workers who labor in warehouses.

Amazon did outline some initiatives, such as Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE), which hosts an annual AWEsome Conference; the Black Employee Network that hosts a yearly leadership summit; GLAmazon for LGBTQ workers, which takes part in Seattle's PRIDE parade; and Latinos@Amazon, which "hosts social and cultural events" and participates in recruiting efforts. 

The self-described “everything store” plans to hire 80,000 more temporary workers in the next couple months in preparation for the holiday season, but just a percentage of those will be offered full-time work through the next year, let alone an opportunity to grow into management position.

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