Boston, MA 06/18/2014 (wallstreetpr) – If the face of CEO Marissa Mayer leading the technology giant Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) reminds of the women-centric approach of the company, than those perceptions are about to crash as the Silicon Valley giant fails to differentiate itself. For the first time, Yahoo has released its workforce makeup and, less surprisingly, data is skewed towards male and white employees.
More White And More Male
The workforce statistics of the company point out that the women employees are just 37% of the total workforce of 12,000, with merely 23% of them at senior managerial positions and remaining 15% in technical positions. As far as the race based composition is concerned, Yahoo’s 50% of the workforce are white, followed by 39% of Asians. Black and Hispanic collectively have as little as 6% placement in the workforce.
The numbers released by Yahoo are more or less, same as that of Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), which took the initiative to report its workforce numbers last month. In its report, Google had reported concentration of its workforce towards male and white employees. However, the search engine giant courageously accepted its failure to be optimally diverse and talked about correcting measures in this direction.
Multi-National But Not Diverse
Same thoughts are repeated by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)’s Chief Development Officer, Jackie Reses, who wrote in a blog post, “Overall, our goal at Yahoo is to create a workplace culture that attracts and retains all talents, regardless of background, and to help our people grow to their full potential.” Reses added that the numbers are just a part of the story, referring to its achievement as ” Best Place To Work For LGBT Equality”.
But, despite those justifications, the facts highlight the lack of diversity at these companies, which have a vast network of their businesses spreading to every single possible corner of the world, but yet failed to bridge the gap in their own offices.
