Microsoft has released new workplace diversity statistics, showing that the company is about 70 percent male and 60 percent white. The Xbox makerpublished the statistics to its website recently, and even launched a new diversity and inclusion online portal that goes in-depth about the numbers.

As of September 30, Microsoft's global staff was 71 percent male and 29 percent female. 60.6 percent of employees are Caucasian, 28.9 percent Asian, 5.1 percent Hispanic/Latino, 3.5 percent African American/Black, 1.2 percent multi-racial, .5 percent American Indian/Alaska Native, and .3 percent Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander.

Microsoft matches up pretty closely with other big-name tech companies, including Google and Facebook, which both feature a similar male-to-female ratio and race breakdown.

GameSpot sister site Zdnet reports that the percentage of Microsoft's female workforce is up 5 percentage points, from 24 percent to 29 percent, compared to last year. In addition, the number of Microsoft senior executive women and minorities jumped from 24 percent to 27 percent, while the percentage of women and minorities on the Microsoft board of directors rose from 33 percent to 40 percent year-over-year.

Microsoft's executive vice president of human resources, Lisa Brummel, said in an email to employees that there is still "much work" to be done regarding Microsoft's diversity. "Diversity and inclusion are a business imperative. Diversity needs to be a source of strength and competitive advantage for us," she said. You can read the full email on Zdnet.

When looking at Microsoft tech jobs alone, the gender gap increases to 82.9 percent male and 17.1 percent female. A similar breakdown can be found among Microsoft leadership, where 82.7 percent of jobs belong to men. Microsoft's "non-tech" workforce is 55.5 percent male.

Microsoft did not share workplace diversity figures for the company's Xbox division, though we have followed up to try to track down those numbers.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-workforce-is-70-percent-male-60-percent-/1100-6422760/

just sucks to know someone can get hired over you because they needs more black people/Hispanic people for diversity in the work force.

LMOA diversity, lets hire incompetent people due to meeting some pathetic pc color quota.

The one instant i feel sorry for corporations is dealing with this crapolla.

What is the point in the article? Is it trying to indirectly infer that Microsoft is racist/sexist?

Love to see their LGBT ratios too, they're very gay friendly.

OP I think you skipped Asian, female, Hispanic and you went straight for the money. Click,click.

Thought it was interesting to see how male dominated the tech industry is. Also surprised to see so many Asians and so few Black and Hispanic people. 

Why should a company have to be gay friendly? Surely the should be gay indifferent? The same as they shoud be colour/race/sex indifferent and always hire the best person for the job regardless.

And you forgot one major stat: 100% down to party!!

That would be great in a perfect world. People didn't pull out some of these policies out of their butt, a lot of companies still/used to discriminate against non-white/gay/handicaped.