Although African Americans account for about 12percent of the U.S. population, they only make up 3.8 percent ofFacebook workers. For Latinos, it's 17 percent of thepopulation and 5.3 percent of Facebook employees. (APPhoto/Paul Sakuma)

Facebook is looking to diversify.

The annual diversity report that the social media giant published last week showed only modest gains inthe representation of women, African Americans and Hispanics. Thecompany says it is committed to making changes to ensure greaterrepresentation of those groups, all of which are traditionallyunderrepresented in tech.

Facebook's workforce is 36.9 percent female, up from 36.3percent last year.

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Whites now make up 44.2 percent of employees, down from 46.6percent. Asians have climbed from 41.4 percent to 43 percent of theworkforce.

Although African Americans account for about 12 percent of theU.S. population, they only make up 3.8 percent of Facebook workers.Latinos, who account for nearly 17 percent of the nation'spopulation, make up 5.3 percent of Facebook employees.

While accounting for only 5 percent of the total U.S.population, Asians account for an outright majority (52.3 percent)of technical roles at Facebook, while Hispanics and AfricanAmericans represent 3.5 percent and 1.5 percent of technicalemployees, respectively. Less than a quarter of technical workersare female.

In business and sales, the demographics are very different. Amajority of employees are women (57.5 percent), while only aquarter are Asian, 8.8 percent are Hispanic and 8.2 percent areblack.

In senior leadership roles, about two-thirds are men and aboutthe same percentage are white. Asians make up a quarter ofpositions and blacks and Hispanics make up 3.1 percent and 3.5percent, respectively.

The company touted the figures as evidence of progress, butstressed that it was committed to doing more.

“Today, there are more people of diverse backgrounds andexperiences, more people of color, more women in both technical andbusiness roles, and more underrepresented people in leadershiphere,” wrote the company in a blog post.

“Most notably, we've achieved higher representation of women inleadership by focusing on hiring and growing female leaders withinthe company. Over the last several years, the majority of newfemale leaders were internally promoted. Also, since 2014, we haveincreased the number of Black women at Facebook by25 times and the number of Black men by 10 times.And importantly, even as we have grown, we have worked very hard onmaking Facebook a more welcoming, respectful workplace.”

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