Google reports increased Black and Latinx representation in the US

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The company says it made some positive progress over the past year in its diversity report. The company's representation of Black and Latinx people in the US increased at 20 percent and 8 percent respectively. Black, Latinx and Native American employees have improved their leadership representation by 27 percent.

There is still more work to be done. The company's US workforce is 33.5 percent women and 66.5 percent men, numbers that are only slightly different than the 32.2 percent women and 67.8 percent men reported in 2021. In its report for 2022, the company said that 48.3% of its US workers are white, 43.0% are Asian, 6.9 percent are Latinx, 5.3 percent are Black, and 0.8 percent are Native American.

You can find a lot of information about the company's statistics on the website and in the PDF version of the report. As we continue to build a more inclusive and representative Google, we will hold ourselves accountable in how we work to make our goals a reality.

Timnit Gebru, who is Black, was fired from his job as an artificial intelligence ethicist at Google in December 2020. Two months later, the company made changes to its policies.