Facebook just released new diversity data – and its’s pretty disappointing. The company’s overall ratio of male to female employees is 66% to 31% – just a 1% difference from last year, even though the social network hired 2,897 new employees.
Maxine Williams, Global Director of Diversity, commented:
“Diversity is central to Facebook’s mission of creating a more open and connected world: it’s good for our products and for our business. Cognitive diversity, or diversity of thought, matters because we are building a platform that currently serves 1.4 billion people around the world. It’s vital for us to have a broad range of perspectives, including people of different genders, races, ages, sexual orientations, characteristics and points of view. Having a diverse workforce is not only the right thing to do – it’s the smart thing to do for our business.”


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