Industry · Technology

Technology & STEM: The industry building the next century, on the most narrow bench.

Software engineers. AI/ML researchers. Hardware engineers. Product managers. Eight percent Latino in a field that is building the systems we will all depend on by 2045.

The Breakdown

Latino representation across sub-occupations.

Gold line = 19.5% U.S. Latino population parity (Census ACS 2023). Each row sourced individually below.

Software Developers
8.5%
BLS 2023
STEM Workforce (all)
8%
NSF NCSES 2024
AI/ML Researchers (PhD-track)
~3%
Stanford AI Index 2024
Tech Company Management
4–5%
EEOC EEO-1 2022
Venture Capital Partners
~3%
NVCA Diversity 2023
Computer Science PhD Recipients
4.5%
NSF SED 2023

Primary source: NSF NCSES (2024). Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities.

Why This Matters

The mechanism inside this number.

Tech's representation gap is sharper than most because it compounds. the gap in CS PhDs feeds the gap in AI research, which feeds the gap in product leadership, which feeds the gap in venture decision-making. This is the most concentrated pipeline failure in the dataset.

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