SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo revealed its workforce is less than 40 percent female and that many of the women are in non-leadership roles, in the Web portal’s first such disclosure amid a Silicon Valley debate over diversity.
Yahoo said 77 percent of its leaders — defined as vice presidents or higher — are men, according to the report on Tuesday. Women make up 15 percent of the technically focused positions and have 52 percent of the jobs in non-technical posts. Almost 90 percent of Yahoo’s U.S. workforce is white or Asian.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, one of the few led by a female chief executive officer, Marissa Mayer, is disclosing the make-up of its staff after similar reports by Google and LinkedIn in the last few weeks. The data shine the spotlight on the lack of minorities and women at technology companies, an issue that has received growing attention. Apple, Facebook, Twitter and others have faced pressure to increase the number of women directors on their boards.
Mayer, a former Google executive, was brought on in 2012 to turn around the Web company. In total, Yahoo had about 12,400 employees as of the end of March.