Amazon.com released a report on Friday regarding its employee diversity that reveals that majority of its employees are white and male, similar to findings by the tech industry leaders like Facebook and Google.
According to the report, 63 percent of Amazon's workforce is men while over a half of that, 37 percent are women.
Among Amazon's managers, the gender gap is even wider, with 75 percent of managers being men. Amazon also said that 60 percent of its employees is white-its largest minority.
Other tech companies like Silicon Valley have received particularly rash feedbacks on the culture and message the big tech leaders are emanating. According to advocates, the increasing trend of the "bro-grammer" culture discourages both women and minorities.
With this new report about company workforce diversity, the Seattle-based e-commerce behemoth will likely face that criticism as well.
Meanwhile, it explained how its company workforce diversity report and addressed several issues thrown at it.
"Amazon has hundreds of millions of prospects who can advantage from diversity of thought," stated Amazon in its report.
"We are an enterprise of builders who bring varying backgrounds, tips, and points of view to inventing on behalf of our prospects."
"Our diverse perspectives come from numerous sources which includes gender, race, age, national origin, culture, education, as nicely as qualified and life practical experience. We are operating to create leaders and shape future talent pools to support us meet the needs of our consumers around the planet." continued Amazon on its web-site.
The organization explained further that the lack of minorities and women in the workplace is largely due to "the lack of encouragement for these people to study science and technology at school."
"We know that in middle school and high school, students are currently deciding what professions they want to pursue, much more usually than not female students and students of color are opting out of technology and engineering," said the e-commerce giant.
