Facebook Diversity: ‘Positive but Modest Change’

Facebook continues to make slow progress in its diversity efforts, and global director of diversity Maxine Williams admitted in a Newsroom post that much work remains to be done.

Facebook continues to make slow progress in its diversity efforts, and global director of diversity Maxine Williams admitted in a Newsroom post that much work remains to be done.

Williams provided the following statistics about Facebook’s employee roster:

  • U.S. overall: 55 percent white, 36 percent Asian, 4 percent Hispanic, 3 percent two or more races, 2 percent black, 0 percent other.
  • U.S. tech: 51 percent white, 43 percent Asian, 3 percent Hispanic, 2 percent two or more races, 1 percent black, 0 percent other.
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