White Males Majority of Amazon Employees, Managers, Says Diversity Report

Sixty-three percent of Amazon’s global workforce is male, said the company’s diversity report released Friday. Whites made up 60 percent of Amazon’s workforce in the U.S.; blacks, 15 percent; Asians, 13 percent; Hispanics, 9 percent; and “other” races made up 3 percent, it said. Amazon said it gathered its employees' gender statistics in September; its racial statistics in July. Amazon’s racial disparities increased when applied to manager positions in the U.S., it said. Blacks and Hispanics each were 4 percent of Amazon's managers, compared with 71 percent for whites and 18 percent for Asians, it said.