An analysis by the San Jose Mercury News found that Latino tech workers in Silicon Valley decreased from 2000 to 2010, along with African-Americans. Instead, Asians now make up more than half of the workforce, in large part, according to the report, because of companies’ reliance on importing workers with work visas.
White workers in these fields shrank from 50% to just 41%.
Latino workers dropped from 4.6% to 4.2% of the Silicon Valley workforce from 2000 to 2010, and these numbers were 2.8% to 2.3% for African-Americans. According to the report:
The dramatic shift in the changing composition of the high-tech workforce represents a new generation of homegrown and imported workers drilled in science, technology, engineering and math studies. But the shift in workplace demographics — at least among tech companies — fails to reflect the gains of California’s Hispanic and Latino population, which lost ground in tech jobs along with African-Americans.
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Sara Inés Calderón is a journalist and writer who lives between Texas and California. Follow her on Twitter @SaraChicaD.
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