James Damore isn't the only white male in tech who feels discriminated against.

A Pew Research Center survey released on Tuesday found that 13 per cent of white workers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields report experiences of racial discrimination at work.

Among the male STEM workers surveyed, 19 per cent felt that they had experienced some kind of gender-based discrimination in the workplace.

Although responses for the white male demographic were not specifically broken down in the published results, the inclusion of anonymous comments from respondents offered a clear picture into the minds of some white men in STEM.

'It is OK to tell me "you are a blue eyed white heterosexual Christian male, you don't stand a chance and there is nothing you can do about it",' said one civil engineering inspector, 49.

He continued: 'I have heard this or [a] variation over and over with two different government employers. They are always looking over me to hire or promote minorities.'

James Damore (above) isn't the only white male in tech who feels discriminated against. A new survey finds 13 per cent of white workers say they've experienced racial discrimination at work

Thirteen per cent of white workers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields report experiences of racial discrimination

One engineer, a 47-year-old white man, said: 'Today the white male is the enemy. I've seen too many qualified white males passed over for promotions or advancement in favor of a woman and/or minority. Qualifications don't matter these days, rather your gender and race matter.'

Another white male engineer, 58, said: 'Reverse discrimination is still present in the workforce today. People with the same skills and experience, but different ethnicities, have different opportunities. A person formally classed as a minority will get preference over a white Caucasian.'

'As a white male nothing is a given now, you have to fight harder to overcome institutional and government reverse discrimination,' said one 55-year-old industrial and medical engineer.

'White males are an undesirable classification currently in environments seeking the managed utopia of balance and 'diversity',' a white male computer worker, 52, said.

The survey noted that although the share of blacks working in STEM jobs has gone from 7 per cent in 1990 to 9 per cent today, blacks are still underrepresented, making up 11 per cent of the total US workforce.

Hispanic share of STEM employment has gone up from 4 per cent to 7 per cent, while their share of the US workforce has grown from 7 per cent in 1990 to 16 per cent today.

The survey, conducted in July and August, comes as debates over diversity in the tech fields have reached a new fever pitch.

Former Google employee Damore filed a class-action suit against the massive company on Monday, claiming he and other white and Asian men at the company had been targeted for belittlement in a quest for workplace diversity.

Google 'openly shames managers of business units who fail to meet their [diversity] quotas—in the process, openly denigrating male and Caucasian employees as less favored than others,' the suit claims.

The complaint continues: 'Not only was the numerical presence of women celebrated at Google solely due to their gender, but the presence of Caucasians and males was mocked with "boos" during company-wide weekly meetings.'

'We look forward to defending against Mr. Damore's lawsuit in court,' Google said in a statement.

Damore was fired in August, after a controversial memo about numerical disparities between male and female employment in engineering went viral.

The memo posited that differences in average inclinations and aptitudes between men and woman were responsible for the underrepresentation of women in the field.

He accused the company of maintaining 'a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence.'