Twitter’s workforce ‘no exception’ in tech industry
Twitter just released its workforce diversity report, and it looks a lot like other tech companies’.
Twitter just released its workforce diversity report, and it looks a lot like other tech companies’.
First off, most of Twitter’s overall workforce is male. On the tech side, like at other companies, the ratio is even more disproportionate, with just 1 in 10 women working with technology at the company.
Twitter also mirrors companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Google when it comes to representation from Latinos and African Americans.
Some of the initiatives that Twitter outlined in the report were partnerships with programs like Year Up and Girls Who Code, bias mitigation training for current employees, and encouraging employee-led groups like WomEng (women in engineering), TwitterOpen (LGBTQ), Blackbird (Tweeps of color) and Alas (Latino employees). While WomEng and TwitterOpen have been around for a few years, Alas and Blackbird just started their Twitter accounts last week.
“We are keenly aware that Twitter is part of an industry that is marked by dramatic imbalances in diversity,” the report said, “and we are no exception.”
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