An important methodological note is in order here. The gender breakdown for each company reflects the male-to-female ratio within the global workforce. The data on ethnicity, meanwhile, only takes into consideration U.S. employees in almost all cases. Most companies report their diversity figures in this way to adhere to the format of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's EEO-1 report.



Based on the data we've presented here, there is still significant gender imbalance in some of America's biggest companies. Of the 91 companies for which we have gender data, 60 have a workforce that is a majority male.

On ethnic diversity, Fortune 500 companies fair slightly better. About half of companies represented have a workforce composed of more than 38.7% ethnic minorities. That would make its employees more diverse than the U.S. population, which was 61.3% white (not Hispanic / Latino) as of July 1, 2016. Still, these numbers don't address the diversity within each company's managerial ranks and executive teams. Those are likely much less diverse than the company at large.

