Facebook is slowly but surely making its workforce more diverse

Facebook’s latest diversity report, out today, comes with a genuine surprise: improvement in nearly every category. While most tech companies struggle to make their workplaces more diverse and less dominated by white and male employees, Facebook has managed to hire more women and minorities in the last year in almost every category it tracks.

Of course, the improvements are still very incremental, but the improvements show that Facebook’s efforts, led by executive diversity chief Maxine Williams, are indeed helping. Facebook now reports that 35 percent of its staff is female, up from 33 percent a year ago, while the number of women in leadership roles is up one percentage point to 28 percent.

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