CEOs from San Francisco to Silicon Valley are addressing diversity head on, publicly promising to diversify their workforce and taking steps to do so. But the reality—confirmed by recently published diversity data from leading tech companies—is that the majority of United States tech employees are still white males.
Among some of the national Bay Area tech employers, men account for around 65 percent and whites account for between 50 and 60 percent of their workforces. Recent census data from the Department of Education finds that men earn the overwhelming majority of electrical (83.2%) and computer software (71.2%) engineering degrees, white is the most common ethnicity for degree earners, and Sunnyvale and San Jose are cities with some of the highest numbers of employed engineers.
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