Google Employs Fewer Women Than Dozens of Its S&P 500 Peers

Google has finally acknowledged its diversity problem.

Laszlo Block, the company’s senior vice president for people operations, reversed the company’s reluctance to reveal the number of women and minorities in its workforce. The statistics disclosed on Wednesday show that 30 percent of Google workers are women and 39 percent are racial or ethnic minorities. The overwhelming majority of nonwhite Google employees are of Asian descent.