Google has released its annual diversity report, claiming that it has made progress in the previous year. Year over year, the business experienced its “biggest growth in representation of Black and Latinx Googlers in the US ever,” at 20% and 8%, respectively. Google’s leadership representation of Black, Latinx, and Native American employees has improved by 27%.

However, some data indicates that there is more work to be done. The company’s workforce in the United States is 33.5 percent female and 66.5 percent male, which is very little different from the 32.2 percent female and 67.8 percent male reported in 2021. 48.3% of its US employees are white, while 43.2 percent are Asian, 6.9 percent are Latinx, 5.3 percent are Black, and 0.8 percent are Native American.

The company does provide a vast amount of information about its statistics, and you can dig into all of it on the 2022 Diversity Annual Report website and in the PDF version of the report. And Google appears to be committed to moving the needle, saying that “as we continue to build a more inclusive and representative Google, we’ll hold ourselves accountable in how we work to make our goals a reality.”

Google came under scrutiny for its diversity policies after it fired prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebru, who is Black, in December 2020. The company made changes to its diversity and research policies two months later.

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• In the United States, Google reports an increase in the representation of Blacks and Latinos
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