--- title: eBay Employs More Women Than Other Tech Companies description: But women at the company are still outnumbered in tech and leadership positions canonical: https://time.com/3068015/ebay-diversity-women-blacks-hispanics/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-01T01:01:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:45.870Z og:title: eBay Employs More Women Than Other Tech Companies og:description: But women at the company are still outnumbered in tech and leadership positions og:url: https://time.com/3068015/ebay-diversity-women-blacks-hispanics/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85690a4b34943af9/6986904ee53abaf43c4d2aab/ebay.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: The eBay headquarters seen in San Jose, Calif., in 2011. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: eBay Employs More Women Than Other Tech Companies twitter:description: But women at the company are still outnumbered in tech and leadership positions twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85690a4b34943af9/6986904ee53abaf43c4d2aab/ebay.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # eBay's Surprising Diversity Figures > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters.  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Aug 1, 2014 1:01 AM UTC  The eBay headquarters seen in San Jose, Calif., in 2011 The eBay headquarters seen in San Jose, Calif., in 2011 David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Aug 1, 2014 1:01 AM UTC The tech industry is [notoriously dominated by white and Asian men](http://time.com/136598/snapchat-misogyny/). But eBay’s [first diversity report](http://www.ebayinc.com/in%5Fthe%5Fnews/story/building-stronger-better-more-diverse-ebay) shows that it employs more women, blacks and Hispanics than its peers. Forty-two percent of eBay’s staff of 33,000 workers is female, beating out LinkedIn’s 39%, Yahoo’s 37%, Facebook’s 31%, Twitter’s 30% and Google’s 30%. eBay also reported that 7% of its U.S. employees are black and 5% are Hispanic. But even though eBay as a whole may be more diverse than many other tech companies — it also had a female CEO, Meg Whitman, from 1998 through 2008 — there is still a huge gender gap in terms of tech jobs and leadership roles: only 24% of eBay’s tech workers are women. And even though eBay says it has doubled the number of women promoted to leadership positions in the past three years, just 28% of those in leadership at eBay are women. (For comparison, 17% of Google’s engineers are women, and 21% of leaders are women.) The same holds true for race. Of those working tech jobs, only 2% are black, 2% are Hispanic and 1% are multiracial. Meanwhile, 40% of those holding tech jobs are white, and 55% are Asian. 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