From CNET: It's been a year since Intel kicked off a bold, $300 million initiative to make itself and the tech industry more diverse. The results so far show progress but are slow going.
The world's largest chipmaker came out with its 2015 diversity report Wednesday, showing it increased the number of women and underrepresented minorities in its roughly 53,000-employee company, though in some cases the percentage changes were tiny. The percentage of women employed by Intel in the US rose to 24.8 percent from 23.5 percent a year earlier. But the percentage of underrepresented minorities, including African Americans and Hispanics, edged up to just 12.4 percent from 12.3 percent.
The lack of diversity in Silicon Valley has been a problem that's stubbornly existed for years, so it should come as little surprise that Intel wasn't able to make drastic changes in the first year of its five-year diversity initiative. The small progress highlights just how difficult it can be to make a dent in increasing diversity hires and the long slog ahead for the company to reach its goal of significantly raising the number of underrepresented minorities and women it employs by 2020.
But the Santa Clara, California, company framed much of its effort as a success, saying it's diverse hires last year accounted for 43 percent of the total, beating its goal of 40 percent. It also said it killed off its gender pay gap and increased the representation of women at all levels of the company.
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