I find it amazing that Google has now decided they want to increase the diversity in the company! Especially by hiring more black and Hispanic women into the Google team. We all know it is very difficult to get women of color to be hired in the tech industry! But that thanks to Google’s new diversity chief Danielle Brown, Google is planning to make women or color an “intentional focus”. Brown joined Google about 2 years ago, in replacing the former diversity chief James Damore. Damore was fired because he was using harmful gender stereotypes and unconscious bias training towards gender and race instead of talent. Since Brown is the new diversity chief if Google, she insists that she is going to work on centering and focusing on bringing in more women of color into the team. I think this is a great advantage for women of color to come in and take their chances to be apart one of the biggest tech company in the U.S.

Out of about 56,000 people who are employed at Google in the U.S in 2017, there were 544 black women who were hired which went up from 348 in 2016. As for Hispanic women in 2017, there were 945 women employed which when up from 566 in 2016! These numbers will increase drastically within the next few years of course if more women of color get involved with tech. Google will retain and further educate more women of color who is into Tech. This is a great advantage for women of color who interested in tech or IT but do not have enough skills in their pocket.

I think this is a great opportunity that has happened in the past year not because Google is hiring more women of color but because the number of women of color is being employed every year! I have always wanted to work with Google, now I really see myself at least sending in an application and not being rejected because of my gender or race! Do you think this a great opportunity? Have you ever thought about working for Google?