Microsoft is the latest tech company to release public information on its employee diversity, and today said the percentage of its employees who are women is up compared to last year. The company said its global female workforce grew to 29 percent, up from 24 percent last year. Microsoft also said that the number women or minorities grew from 24 to 27 percent among its senior executives, and from 33 to 40 percent on its board of directors.

The number of female "tech" workers is far lower

Those figures put it in line with a number of other tech companies that have made employee gender and ethnicity public, including peers like Apple and Googl …

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Apple's just released its first ever diversity report, following in the footsteps of several other major technology companies. In it, Apple notes that 70 percent of its 98,000 employees around the world are male, but that "inclusion and diversity" are on the top of the list of priorities for Apple CEO Tim Cook. The company also points out that it's been involved in several causes like donating millions to education, and sponsoring organizations like the Human Rights Campaign and National Center for Women & Information Technology.

The new metrics are primarily for the US, where the majority of its employees reside. Apple notes that more than …

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Copying the lead of other big tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google, eBay has detailed its workplace diversity for the first time. The figures released show a company that hires more women, Hispanics, and black people than its industry peers, but one that is still dominated by white and Asian men.

42 percent of eBay's 33,000 employees are women. By comparison, only 37 percent of Yahoo's and 30 percent of Google's workforces are female. But up at the top of the company, eBay's figures are less impressive: only 28 percent of the company's leaders - people at director level or above - are women. The company's tech division is ev …

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Twitter is joining the growing ranks of major tech companies that are publishing data on diversity within their workforce. It released the gender and ethnicity breakdown of its employees today, and, unsurprisingly, they're predominantly white and male. Overall, men make up 70 percent of roles at the company; 59 percent of Twitter's employees are white, and the bulk of the others (29 percent) are Asian. "Like our peers," Twitter notes, "we have a lot of work to do."

"We have a lot of work to do."

Both the ethnicity and gender figures at Twitter are all quite similar to those that we've seen from Google, Yahoo, and Facebook. Once again, black …

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For the first time ever, Facebook today publicly revealed statistics outlining diversity among its employees. By offering up the data, Facebook has joined a growing, transparent movement in Silicon Valley; Google and Yahoo have also released diversity numbers, and all of the companies say they're striving to do better. "At Facebook, diversity is essential to achieving our mission," said Facebook's Maxine Williams. "We build products to connect the world, and this means we need a team that understands and reflects many different communities, backgrounds and cultures." But at least for right now, Facebook's diversity figures follow disappointi …

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Google's workforce isn't nearly as diverse as it could be, and today the company is publicly admitting that it's a very real problem. For the first time ever, Google has published comprehensive gender and ethnic demographics for its staff. As you might guess, the numbers reveal that a large majority of Google employees are white men. 61 percent of workers in the United States are white; Asian ethnicity ranks second at 30 percent. But beyond that, diversity at Google falls off a cliff and is more or less non-existent. Just 3 percent of Googlers are Hispanic, and only 2 percent are black. Gender data is more global, but still troubling: women …

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