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Google discloses workforce diversity data, and it isn't pretty

Xeni Jardin at 3:07 pm Wed, May 28, 2014

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Google has released a report on the gender and ethnic makeup of its employee population, and the data shows that the company overwhelmingly hires white males, surprising approximately nobody. PBS NewsHour received an advance look at the data. On tonight's program, host Gwen Ifill speaks with Lazlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, to discuss the statistics--and the greater problem of how to ensure that more women and diverse ethnic groups become part of the power flow in the tech industry.

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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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