Netflix diversity report: 52% of the staff are women

Author Moonshot.news

Published on: 16/02/2022

A bit more than half of Netflix’s global staff are women, the company says in an update of its diversity and inclusion report. 51.7% are women, up from 48.7% in 2020. This includes 6.9% growth of women in director positions and higher. 51.1% of directors and above are women, the company says. Of the 22 leaders in the company’s leadership team, ten (45.0%) are women.

”Our members come from many different countries and cultures and to entertain them we need a workplace and content that’s equally diverse”, the update says.

Netflix grew from about 8,000 to 10,000 full-time employees globally in 2021. In the US — where the company collects and reports race and ethnicity data — staff grew from 6,300 to 7,300 employees.

Netflix says it has a lot more work to do, particularly in recruiting more Latino/a/x, Indigenous and other historically excluded talent in the U.S.

“We’re also improving how we understand the representation of our workforce outside of the US reporting requirements – like additional gender identities, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, and in other countries.”

The company says 50.5% of the US workforce (50.5%) is made up of people from one or more historically excluded ethnic and/or racial backgrounds, including Asian, Black, Hispanic or Latino/a/x, Middle Eastern or North African, Native American, and Pacific Islander. That’s up from 46.8% in 2020.

• The number of US Black employees increased from 8.6% to 10.7% – and Black leadership (directors and above) increased from 10.9% to 13.3%.
• The number of US Hispanic or Latino/a/x employees increased slightly from 7.9% to 8.6%, and US Hispanic or Latino/a/x leadership (directors and above) grew from 4.3% to 4.4%.