Due to a combination of biases and barriers in the recruitment, hiring, performance review, and promotion processes, race and gender disparities in the technology workforce are stark and companies do not reflect the demographics of the United States workforce.
Despite the availability of diverse talent among the U.S. labor force and among computing degree earners, the national technology workforce is predominantly white and male.
In Silicon Valley, the racial and gender disparities are even more stark. Across 177 companies in Silicon Valley, less than 8% of the workforce is either Black or Latinx and only 30% are women.