White or Asian men are the typical employees in major US technology firms, and this has changed little since the first wave of "diversity reporting" last year.
Workforce data provided by companies was global regarding gender and limited to the United States regarding ethnicity.
GOOGLE was overall 70 percent male in January 2015, a make-up unchanged from the previous year. When it came to purely technology jobs, the percentage of men rose to 82.
Some 60 percent of Google employees were white, while about 31 percent were said to be Asian.
The Internet giant stepped up recruitment of blacks and Hispanics last year, but their share of the workforce remained unchanged at two and three percent respectively. Google said that it has ramped up university recruitment and is devoting $150 million this year to improving diversity.
APPLE increased last year's hiring of women, blacks and Hispanics by more than 50 percent, adding a total of 15,900 positions in a new record for the world's biggest technology company, according to chief executive Tim Cook, who maintained that there was "a lot more work to be done." READ MORE AT PHYS.ORG
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