Facebook's workforce demographics: Just 1 in 3 employees are women

Despite an increase in the percentage of women in its global workforce, the world's largest social media network is still struggling with gender and ethnic diversity.

In a recent diversity update, Maxine Williams, global director of diversity at Facebook announced that globally, the social network's workforce comprises 67% men and 33% women - a small improvement of 1 percentage point from last year.

While senior leadership roles (73% men vs 27% women) and tech roles (83% men vs 17% women) are still dominated vastly by men, more women are seen in non-tech roles (53% men vs 47% women).

"Over the past few years, we have been working hard to increase diversity at Facebook through a variety of internal and external programmes and partnerships," Williams wrote.

"For example, while our current representation in senior leadership is 3% Black, 3% Hispanic and 27% women, of new senior leadership hires at Facebook in the US over the last 12 months, 9% are Black, 5% are Hispanic and 29% are women," she added.

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