There are very few women behind the wheel of Tesla.
Detailed data on Tesla’s demographics first released this week shows that men far outnumber women at the most reasonable levels from billionaire Elon Musk’s electric carmaker.
Men held 8 out of 10 executive positions and nearly 7 out of 10 executive positions at Tesla in 2021, the most recent knowledge available.
Those numbers were comparable to those of other major automakers, according to a USA TODAY analysis. At Ford, 74 percent of executives were men and at General Motors, 79 percent.
Women of color were the least represented at the top. Just under 10% of executives were women of color in 2021, yet they hold 15% of jobs in the U. S. The U. S. and 16% of all other positions at Tesla, according to the data.
But that’s higher than at GM, where 3 percent of executives were women of color, and at Ford, 5 percent. Tesla has not reported any Hispanic or Latino women among its executives.
The disparities spread to Tesla’s entire workforce. Men held 77% of all other jobs in the company, adding 77% of jobs.
Tesla can only be reached for comment on Friday.
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Today’s women are more visual in American companies, breaking into executive suites and boardrooms. But despite efforts to narrow the gender gap, women are still far less likely than men to hold the highest positions or earn the most productive wage.
Women make up just a quarter of the auto industry workforce, according to Deloitte and Automotive News. Their report found that 82% of women who oppose men contribute to a lack of diversity in leadership. Almost a portion of women surveyed would replace industries if they had to restart their careers, citing a lack of diversity as one of the main reasons.
Employers with one hundred or more workers and federal contractors with 50 or more workers collect diversity knowledge and submit it to the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. U. S. The reports, called EEO-1, break down the race and gender of a company’s workforce into categories.
Companies like Tesla have struggled to keep the content of those reports from the public. Tesla is one of the few corporations in the S
Earlier this year, the federal government released an old dataset detailing the worker diversity of more than 19,000 of its contractors, but Tesla isn’t one of them.
Tesla’s EEO-1 was filed Tuesday in Illinois, which now requires private companies with more than a hundred workers to produce the report.
Tesla’s EEO-1 report comes after years of strain from investors.
In 2021, a shareholder settlement calling on Tesla to release its EEO-1 report won over the most investors. Tesla, which opposed the move, refused to make it public.
In voicing its opposition, Tesla said it is already generating a diversity report outlining its systems and goals.
“Tesla and the board are proud of the progress made so far,” the company told shareholders at the time.
While investors diversify resolutions, the nation’s largest corporations have largely capitulated, releasing federal reports that used to remain secret.
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Tesla has been accused of tolerating racial slurs and racist habits and has been sued through a California civil rights agency.
The company revealed last year that it was being investigated by the EEOC in a case “very parallel” to the California case. He denied any wrongdoing.
In April, a jury reduced to $3. 2 million a $137 million eulogy a former African-American employee won two years ago against Tesla for failing to protect him from racial abuse. amount, the highest ever recorded for a person who sued for discrimination, too high.
After the 2021 lawsuit, Tesla’s chief human resources officer said the company fired two subcontractors and suspended them in reaction to Diaz’s complaints.
Tesla has been sued for sexual harassment at two of its production plants.