Google is not alone in coming up short on diversity. Recruiting and hiring a diverse workforce has been a

challenge for most major technology companies, including Facebook, Apple, and Yahoo (now owned by

Verizon); all have reported gender and ethnic shortfalls in their workforces.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has made available 2014 data comparing the

participation of women and minorities in the high-technology sector with their participation in U.S. private sector

employment overall, and the results show the technology sector still lags.8 Compared with all private sector

industries, the high-technology industry employs a larger share of whites (68.5%), Asian Americans

(14%), and men (64%), and a smaller share of African Americans (7.4%), Latinos (8%), and women (36%).

Whites also represent a much higher share of those in the executive category (83.3%), whereas other groups

hold a significantly lower share, including African Americans (2%), Latinos (3.1%), and Asian Americans (10.6%).

In addition, and perhaps not surprisingly, 80 percent of executives are men and only 20 percent are women.

This compares negatively with all other private-sector industries, in which 70 percent of executives are men

and 30 percent women.

Technology companies are generally not trying to hide the problem. Many have been publicly releasing

diversity statistics since 2014, and they have been vocal about their intentions to close diversity gaps. More

than thirty technology companies, including Intel, Spotify, Lyft, Airbnb, and Pinterest, each signed a written

pledge to increase workforce diversity and inclusion, and Google pledged to spend more than $100 million to

address diversity issues." (Business Ethics, OpenStax 2018: 235-236)

Here is an article with some updated 2020 data:

https://hbr.org/2020/12/to-increase-diversity-u-s-tech-companies-need-to-follow-the-talent#:~:text=Google's%202020%20annual%20diversity%20report,32.5%25%20employees%20identify%20as%20women.

Select TWO of the following concepts and discuss how these concepts apply to this data and efforts underway to address the lack of diversity in the technology industry.

- Access

- Equity

- Diversity (or lack thereof). What is diversity?

- Self-Serving Bias- Egoism (psychological or ethical egoism)

- Altruism

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