--- title: CES 2015: Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Announces $300M Diversity Plan description: Only 24% of 2013 employees were female canonical: https://time.com/3657636/intel-300-million-diversity-pledge/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-07T18:25:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:04:06.796Z og:title: Intel Pledges $300 Million to Increase Workforce Diversity og:description: Only 24% of 2013 employees were female og:url: https://time.com/3657636/intel-300-million-diversity-pledge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1280dc3209041b0d/69877896428a9ec61bcc66fc/461113082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Inside The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Intel Pledges $300 Million to Increase Workforce Diversity twitter:description: Only 24% of 2013 employees were female twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1280dc3209041b0d/69877896428a9ec61bcc66fc/461113082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Intel Pledges $300 Million to Increase Workforce Diversity > Sponsored content. 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Fallon--Bloomberg via Getty Images) Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jan 7, 2015 6:25 PM UTC Intel CEO Brian Krzanich pledged $300 million to increase the company’s workforce diversity during his keynote address at the Computer Electronics Show (CES) Tuesday. “It’s time to step up and do more,” Krzanich said, acknowledging that the task of achieving “full representation” of women and minorities by 2020 will be “difficult to achieve.” Seventy-six percent of [Intel’s employee](http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/equal-employment-opportunity-employer-info-report.html) were male in 2013\. And the company’s diversity filings from the same year showed Intel’s workforce was only 24% female, 8% Hispanic and 4% black, according to the[ Wall Street _Journal._](http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/06/intel-pledges-300-million-in-workforce-diversity-push/) “It’s not good enough to say we value diversity and then underrepresent women and minorities, Krzanich [said,](http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2474749,00.asp) “Intel wants to lead by example.” Krzanich did not set any specific quotas, but noted that the money would be used to fund programs that could help get more diverse candidates into jobs at Intel, while attracting talented and diverse job candidates. Silicon Valley has long been considered a boy’s club, with major tech companies like [Twitter](http://time.com/3026067/twitter-diversity/) and [Google](http://time.com/3002270/twitter-diversity-google-facebook-apple/) revealing demographics that skew toward white, male workers. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3657636/intel-300-million-diversity-pledge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3657636/intel-300-million-diversity-pledge/"},"headline":"Intel Pledges $300 Million to Increase Workforce Diversity","datePublished":"2015-01-07T18:25:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:04:06.796Z","description":"Only 24% of 2013 employees were female","url":"https://time.com/3657636/intel-300-million-diversity-pledge/","keywords":["Living","Tech","women","CES","Computers","CEO","Intel"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1280dc3209041b0d/69877896428a9ec61bcc66fc/461113082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1280dc3209041b0d/69877896428a9ec61bcc66fc/461113082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Inside The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show","caption":"Inside The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3657636/intel-300-million-diversity-pledge/","name":"Intel Pledges $300 Million to Increase Workforce Diversity"}}]}] ```