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Bolstered by support from top tech executives and the Obama administration, the organizations promised to transform the industry by finding, training and supporting promising talent to diversify a largely homogeneous workforce.

Despite these initiatives, the tech industry’s demographics remain largely stagnant. In 2022, 26 percent of science, tech, engineering and math workers were women, an increase of one percentage point from the year 2000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. While the share of Black workers in Google’s U.S. offices increased by 2.4 percentage points between 2019 and 2024, they make up less than 6 percent of the company.

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