In a January 2019 survey, 61 percent of participants who identified themselves as Latinx from the United States said that they believe that their company has diversity and inclusion initiatives in place. This is compared to the 77 percent of disabled participants who said that their company had diversity and inclusion initiatives in place. All survey participants were full-time working professionals.

This statistic displays where companies focus their diversity efforts in 2017 according to hiring decision makers worldwide. During the survey period, 48 percent of respondents stated that age and generational issues were included in their workplace diversity efforts.

This statistic presents the share of tech leavers in the United States experienced selected types of unfairness as of January 2017. During the survey period, 25 percent of tech leavers stated that they had frequently experienced rudeness and condescending behavior at their previous job. A total of 37 percent had experienced poor management and leadership.

This statistic ranks the key reasons for tech employees in the United States to leave the tech industry as of January 2017, sorted by ethnicity. During the survey period, 39 percent of responding tech leavers who were women of color stated it was due to seeking better opportunities.

This statistic presents the share of tech leavers in the United States who left the tech industry due to unfairness as of January 2017. During the survey period, unfairness was the reason why 37 percent of LGBTQ tech leavers left the tech industry.

In 2024, global companies' main challenge concerning employment diversity in the cybersecurity sector was hiring veterans' spouses, as reported by 40 percent of respondents. At the same time, hiring minorities was also a concern for nearly 30 percent of the respondents.

This statistic presents the share of adults in the United States who say that discrimination against women is a problem in the tech industry as of August 2017, sorted by gender. According to the findings, 44 percent of female respondents stated that discrimination against women in the tech industry was a major problem, while in comparison only 29 percent of male respondents had the same perspective on the matter.

This statistic ranks the key reasons for tech employees in the United States to leave the tech industry as of January 2017, sorted by gender. During the survey period, 31 percent of responding female tech leavers stated it was due to unfairness or mistreatment.

In 2022, a survey among 250 Indian companies revealed that respectively 52 percent of businesses used the percentage of female employees by management level and employee's perception of inclusion as the measurement for female diversity and inclusion. In comparison, gender pay equality served as a means of measurement for 49 percent of the surveyed firms.

In 2024, 4.3 percent of U.S. Google leadership employees were of Latinx ethnicity. The majority of leadership employees, about six in ten, were white. Asian Google employees accounted for the second-largest group of employees in leadership positions.

This statistic ranks the key reasons for tech employees in the United States to leave the tech industry as of January 2017. During the survey period, 37 percent of responding tech leavers stated it was due to unfairness or mistreatment.

This statistic displays how companies support diversity, inclusion and belonging in 2017 according to hiring decision makers worldwide. During the survey period, 44 percent of respondents stated their company emphasized the diversity of their leadership team in order to support diversity, inclusion and belonging.

According to a report by StepStone in 2021, almost 51 percent of respondents German companies needed to catch up with workplace diversity throught the promotion of older employees. Around 50 percent of people thought equal opportunity of promotions was something needed to be improved.

In 2021, according to a survey among those responsible for diversity management in their company, the most important diversity management measure in Germany was to focus on flexible working hour models; 80 percent of respondents stated that this was an important issue. For over two thirds of respondents, restructuring recruiting processes was also a key priority for diversity in the workplace.

As of January 2024, the majority of Google employees worldwide, almost 66 percent, were male. The distribution of male and female employees at Google hasn’t seen a big change over the recent years. In 2014 the share of female employees at Google was 30.6 percent. In 2021 this number has increased by only 3 percent. Considering that the total number of Google employees increased greatly between the years 2007 and 2020, the female quota among the employees had seen rather a small increase. Google as a company Google is a diverse internet company that provides a wide range of digital products and services. In 2022, the company’s global revenue was over 279 billion U.S. dollars. Most of its revenue, around 305 billion U.S. dollars, was from advertising. Among its services, the most popular ones are YouTube and Google Play. Male and female employees at tech companies Google is not the only tech company with a lower number of female employees. This pattern can be seen in other big tech companies too. In 2019, in a ranking of 20 leading tech companies worldwide, only 23andMe had more than a 50 percent share of female employees. The majority of tech companies in the ranking have far more male than female employees.

Zoom Video Communications was ranked the highest company for diversity and inclusion among the leading U.S. tech companies in 2021, according to the source's sentiment analysis*. Zoom had a ranking of 9.46 on a 0 to 10 scale. The company towered over any of the other companies' rankings, which were around 7 or below. At the bottom of the list for diversity and inclusion were Uber, Amazon, and PayPal with only 4 or below.

An August 2020 survey of professionals in the tech industry revealed that 23 percent of tech employees believe that diversity & inclusion initiatives can be very effective. In comparison, 14 percent of tech employees felt that that D&I initiatives were not at all effective.

In 2021, 36 percent of global full-time employees considered their organization's leadership to be very/extremely diverse. According to the Global Consumer Trends report on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Dynata, about half of employees worldwide perceived their companies as diverse.

As of 2019, most employees in selected tech companies were male. Biotech company 23andMe was ranked first with 51 percent female employees, the only company on the list to feature a majority female workforce. Airbnb was ranked second with 48.94 percent female employees. Hardware-focused companies Intel, Cisco, and Nvidia closed the ranking with less than 30 percent female workforce each.

One female to every two males in U.S. tech industry    

The majority of employees in the U.S. tech industry are male. Round about a third of all employees in tech occupations in the United States are women – Washington D.C., or the District of Columbia, was the state with the greatest tech gender balance in the U.S., with close to 40 percent of tech employees there being female in 2019. In general, females also earn less than their male counterparts: males in the U.S. earn around 20,000 U.S. dollars on average more than females.

Types of tech employment  

The IT sector employment includes professionals from various sub-fields, such as, technology manufacturing, telecommunications and internet services, software publishing, etc. The worldwide full-time employment in the ICT sector is forecast to grow by around ten million in the next four years. Full-time employees represent close to 70 percent of all IT workers worldwide. Other types of employment include outsourced, contractor, or part-time workers.

As of 2024, 7.5 percent of U.S. Google employees were of Hispanic or Latinx ethnicity. The biggest share of Google employees were white. Currently, more than four in ten Google employees were white, down from more than six in ten in 2014.