Despite months of discussion and hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for diversifying work forces, Silicon Valley continues to be a little bit of a (white) boy’s club.
Google last month pledged $150 million for $115 million the year before and diversity initiatives. Since the technology giant openly recognized its shortcomings in May 2014 but has anything changed?
“Though we still have a ways to go, we are finding some early improvement,” Google said yesterday, reporting that 21 percent of its own technology hires made last year were girls.
The total variety of females in technical purposes additionally rose by 1 percent–maybe due in part to longstanding investments such as the $3 million Google dedicated to Anita Borg Scholarships for women pursuing computer science degrees.
In 2010, only 14 percent of the software engineers of the company’s hired through campus outreach programs were girls.
Likewise, just 8 percent of the I/O audience in 2013 of Google were not male, and 20 percent last year. But during the May summit, the organization said girls were nearly a quarter of its own crowd.

While Google reported a rise in Hispanic and black Googlers that really outpaced the entire hiring increase, they make up just 2 percent and 3 percent of the organization.