Uber Technologies Inc. shed light on the gender and racial diversity of its workforce for the first time Tuesday, releasing a batch of data that even its recruiters reportedly couldn’t access. The diversity data released Tuesday was cast as a first step toward being more transparent about its inner workings. Uber’s global workforce of about 12,000 people is 64% male, and only 15% of its technology workers are women. Uber’s data doesn’t include information about its drivers, who are classified as independent contractors rather than employees. (Indeed, Latino and black workers make up a larger share of Uber’s nontechnical workforce than Google’s or Facebook’s.)

Source: Los Angeles Times March 28, 2017 18:13 UTC