Google Inc. (GOOG)’s decision to lay bare its lack of diversity ramps up the pressure on other Silicon Valley companies to increase the number of women and minorities among technology workers.
Women make up 30 percent of employees and 91 percent of staff are either white or Asian, the Mountain View, California-based company disclosed in a blog post on May 28.
The dearth of female and minority engineers, startup founders and business leaders has long been a sore point for female executives including Facebook Inc.’s Sheryl Sandberg as well as activists such as Jesse Jackson. Google’s disclosure follows increasing calls from investors and activists for companies in the technology hub -- which prides itself on being liberal and culturally inclusive -- to embrace diversity.
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