Facebook released new diversity data on Friday that showed the number of women and minority groups on its staff remains little changed over the past year.
The number of women increased only one percentage point, from 31% to 32%. The number of black people, Hispanic people and people of two or more races remained unchanged at 2%, 4% and 3% respectively.
Diversity among the social network's tech workers is even sparser, with 84% men and 16% women. Among non-tech workers, 48% are men and 52% are women.
Facebook's senior leadership is still overwhelmingly white and male. Women comprise only 23% of the senior leadership, while men comprise 77%, unchanged from last year.
More Asian people made up senior leadership, with 21% this year, up from 19% last year, but the number of senior-level Hispanic people fell from 4% to 3%.
In a blog post, Facebook listed several initiatives to increase its diversity, including a Facebook University training programme, which invites college freshmen from underrepresented groups to spend a summer working alongside Facebook mentors, and a training course geared towards conversations about stereotypes and bias.
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