Tech companies say they value diversity, but reports show little change in the last six years.
"Every year they put out the same diversity report, check the box, then send out the same report the next year," said Freada Kapor Klein, founding partner at Kapor Capital. "We're at a crucial crossroads — I don't think what tech companies have done to date is anywhere near enough."the gap and made it a public goal to increase diversity in their workforces.
Women have moved up as a higher fraction of the workforce. Facebook's technical workforce, for example, jumped from 15% female when the report began in 2014 to 23% at the beginning of 2019. Google has made similar progress. Among leadership and technical roles like coders and engineers, the diversity numbers are even lower. Apple's workforce is 9% Black — but that drops to 3% when looking at leadership roles. Its share of Black technical workers remained flat at 6% from the end of 2013 through the end of 2017, the last year Apple published diversity data.
In response to CNBC's requests for comment, the tech companies pointed to incremental progress. Last year, Google showed its largest increase recorded in hiring Black tech employees in the U.S. At Apple, 53% of new hires in the U.S. are from historically underrepresented groups in tech.
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