Of the 24 programmers here, there are 23 white men, and 1 hispanic man. No women at all.
The weird thing is, we’re in the SF bay area, probably the most liberal place in the USA, and very diverse. This is a very young company, both in terms of corporate age (6 or so years) and employee age (I’m 33, and 4th or so oldest out of 24). And I absolutely swear that no one involved in the hiring decisions has a sexist or racist bone in their body.
(Video game programmers are incredibly male-dominated, but I’ve worked with at least a few women, some of them damn good, in the past. And the nearly-pure lily-whiteness is just odd…)
In some ways our office is very diverse, in other ways it isn’t. Out of my departments app 35 people, we have a 50/50 mix of male/female. We have a mix of black, white, hispanic of many varieties, polynesian and probably others.
Where are not so diverse; Religion. only 3 that I know of are not a variety of christian. Those are neo-pagan, jewish and hindi. Sexual orientation, I am the only gay one.
I work with a great mix, white russians, latinos, native americans, men, women. Then again I work in an environment that is dominated by dirt worshipping tree-huggers.
We only have one guy in my office. The poor bastard gets picked on mercilessly. Also, we’re pretty white. Only one black co-worker. All of us are Christian (or, at least, celebrate Christmas) although one person grew up Jewish. Only one lesbian.
On the other hand, there’s just 11 of us, so I guess a certain amount of homogeneity is expected. It’s the gender thing that is surprising. Also funny is the fact that when we were hiring someone last year, we got a thing from HR saying that the target hire should ideally be… a woman. We just laughed. I guess females are an anomaly university-wide at this kind of job, but within our office that was ridiculous.
My office is about as diverse as you can get. We have about 40 employees here in the US, from 25-odd countries, 32 languages, and every one of the major world religions (off the top of my head, I think Buddhism would win in a poll). That’s probably cheating though, as we’re a translation shop.
I did work for a company previously where there were only 2 of us out of 15 in the office (and 10,000 company wide, but they were overseas) were non-indian. Me and a Japanese dude.
visible minorities: one black, one East Indian, one Asian
there are a couple employees who are immigrants from eastern Europe
6 managers:
1 male
7 executives:
3 male, 4 female
I’m not sure why the female:male ratio is so high. Most of the work is office/administrative, and the three males in the general staff are in IT and Communications.
We’ve had other minorities working in the office in the last few years that I’ve been here. I’m absolutely positive there’s no discrimination going on. And keep in mind that I’m in Alberta, Canada, which doesn’t have as diverse a population as many other locales (less blacks than in the US, less Asians than Vancouver, less other immigrants than Toronto).
I once worked on a staff of about 35 females ranging from 18 to 27, mostly non-straight and some shade of Christian. Three of them were not white. There was one white guy in the same age range who worked with us. He liked chicks too.
Right now I am in our Japanese office. I am the one white american, and there’s also a guy from india, the rest are Japanese. A 1:3 women to men ratio or so.
Gender: 60% male, 40% female, though most management is female.
Politics: Overwhelmingly liberal (we are heavily unionized, as well).
Race: mostly white.
Age: quite a range, from 20s to 60s, with a cluster in the 30s.
Sexuality: of men, about half are gay (and it has been noted on more than one occasion that our gay/straight ratio is rather low for our industry). Of women, most are straight, though we do have several lesbians who regularly temp with us.
I might win this one, at least as the US is concerned. We have one very large rural primary care clinic and two satellite clinics. We have, the last time I heard, 54 employees total.
One of the other doctors is from El Salvador. All the rest are white. In fact, if you drew a 60-mile circle around our main clinic, there might be five employees total who grew up outside it.
I’m pretty sure I’m the only one who wouldn’t identify as Christian. I don’t know anyone who would identify as anything but heterosexual.
Of seven people in our office, six are female. The only boy in the group is rarely in the office – when he is, he cowers in his office in the back (sometimes I think I hear whimpering, but it might be my imagination). We’re all hetero (to my knowledge), white, and approaching or in middle age. Religion-wise, all except me are nominal Christian. Of the seven, five of us have dogs, one has a cat, and the other had a cat until August when it passed away. Two have never married, four are currently married, and one is going through a divorce. There are only two of us who weren’t born and raised in the Indianapolis area.
I’ll bet I win, but that’s because I work in a very small office. That is, the office is big enough, but there aren’t many people. (We are a division of a company located in another state, and our division has been getting smaller and smaller as work has been redirected to New York, mostly.) Of the full-time people we are all white, female, red-headed (more or less) Leos, born between 1950 and 1959, and out of four of us, three of us are left-handed. The part-time people are more diverse although also both white but they are Virgos, and one of them is male. The woman is in her 20s and the man is past retirement age.
I work in an investment bank. Everyone is a white male. There is one asian male. The only women are in administrative support positions (myself included), and the receptionist is an hispanic woman.
