Facebook’s Diversity Efforts Failing African American and Hispanic Women

Source:USAToday.com

Facebook is inching toward increasing the diversity of its workforce but it still has a big problem: It's hiring very few black and Hispanic women. The social media giant’s latest diversity report shows strides in boosting the ranks of some groups who’ve been underrepresented at Facebook from the beginning, but a closer look at the raw numbers reveals that these women of color are being largely left out of any progress. You can almost count on one hand the number of black women – six – who work as senior managers or executives at Facebook in the U.S. The number of Hispanic women who are senior managers or executives can be counted on two hands – 10 – for about 1.3 percent of those jobs, according to the most recent documents Facebook filed with the federal government.