First annual Activision Blizzard DEI report: 26% of workforce are women or non-binary

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Activision Blizzard has released its first annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Look-Back report, giving an insight into how the company's workforce looked by the end of 2022.

The report follows the publisher's 2021 commitment to, among other things, increase the percentage of women and non-binary employees by 50% over the course of five years.

This in itself was prompted by multiple lawsuits from US government bodies against the company over discrimination, abuse, gender pay disparity, and more.

In its first report, the company said that women, non-binary and people who identify as something else a little over 26% of its total workforce, while folks from underrepresented ethnic groups accounted for around 38%.

By comparison, women and non-binary employees represented 24% of staff in 2021, while underrepresented ethnic groups accounted for 36%.

The full report offers a deeper breakdown.

(Based on full-time employee self-identification)

Man: 73%Woman: 25%Non-binary: 1%Something else: Less than 1%

Man: 68%Woman: 29%Non-binary: 2%Something else: less than 1%

White: 61%Asian: 19%Hispanic or Latinx: 9%Two or more races: 6%Black or African American: 4%Native American or Alaska Native: less than 1%Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: less than 1%

White: 56%Asian: 18%Hispanic or Latinx: 11%Two or more races: 8%Black or African American: 6%Native American or Alaska Native: less than 1%Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: less than 1%

In a blog post offering more detail, including how Activision Blizzard is changing the way it records data to better identify different groups, the publisher's first chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer Kirsten Hines said she believes the firm has "taken meaningful steps" towards