Overall, employers are making some progress in diversifying their workforces and eliminating gender- and race-based pay disparities. But according to Namely’s report and other studies, stereotyping, bias in hiring, ignoring the achievements of women and people of color, and exclusion along ethnic lines persist.
The lack of progress in certain industries is troubling. Tech companies continue to struggle hiring people of color, particularly African Americans and Latinos. And it’s not out of the inability to find or train qualified workers; some women and the few minorities who are hired don’t often stay in these companies because of the disparate treatment they say they received.
