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Diversity at Google hasn't changed much over the last year.
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Not much has changed at Google over the last year, at least when it comes to the diversity of the tech giant's workforce.
Google released its annual diversity report on Thursday detailing the composition of its workforce. The percentage of female employees fell slightly by .1 percent from 31 percent to 30.9 percent, and the percentage of Asian employees grew from 35 percent to 36.3 percent. The number of black and Latino employees remained low at 2.5 percent and 3.6 percent.
"Google's workforce data demonstrates that if we want a better outcome, we need to evolve our approach," said Danielle Brown, chief diversity and inclusion officer at Google, in the report. "That's why from now on ownership for diversity and inclusion will be shared between Google's leadership team, People Operations and Googlers. Our strategy doesn't provide all the answers, but we believe it will help us find them."
Diversity has been an ongoing issue for Google and its parent company Alphabet. Employees publicly challenged the company's management on diversity issues at Alphabet's annual meeting with shareholders on June 6. But the problem isn't Google's alone, it extends to the entire Silicon Valley. In recent years, major tech companies like Intel and Facebook have made efforts to improve diversity, while battling scandals around gender and race at the same time.
Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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