{"id":121451,"date":"2015-06-02T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=121451"},"modified":"2015-06-02T14:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:00:57","slug":"21-percent-of-tech-hires-in-2014-were-women-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=121451","title":{"rendered":"21 percent of tech hires in 2014 were women &#8211; Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"articleLocatio&lt;\/span&gt;n\">Google has said 21 percent of tech hires last year were women, boosting overall number of women in technical roles by 1 percent, as part of efforts to increase diversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company recently began disclosing the makeup of its workforce after admitting that it was &#8220;wrong, and that it&#8217;s time to be candid about the issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The technology industry has long been plagued not just by allegations of a gender gap but also by a broad lack of inclusiveness that affects minorities too.<\/p>\n<p>Google said Monday that the increase in Black and Hispanic employees outpaced the company&#8217;s overall hiring growth, but made up for only 2 percent and 3 percent of total workforce, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though we still have a long way to go, we&#8217;re seeing some early progress,&#8221; the company said in a Google Plus post.<\/p>\n<p>As of Dec. 31, Google had 53,600 full-time employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has said 21 percent of tech hires last year were women, boosting overall number of women in technical roles by 1 percent, as part of efforts to increase diversity. The company recently began disclosing the makeup of its workforce after admitting that it was &#8220;wrong, and that it&#8217;s time to be candid about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":121452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-121451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}