Key Takeaways
- The gender pay gap in automotive engineering was 18% in 2022, with women earning 82 cents to men's dollar
- Black employees experienced a 22% lower promotion rate to management in auto manufacturing in 2023
- Hispanic workers had 15% less access to training programs in US dealerships in 2022
- 85% of major automakers implemented unconscious bias training by 2023, reaching 92% of employees
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for women grew to 150 across OEMs in 2022
- Mentoring programs for underrepresented minorities covered 45% of automotive workforce in 2023
- Diverse supplier spending reached 15% of total procurement in US auto in 2023, up from 8% in 2018
- Companies with high DEI ratings saw 12% higher employee retention in automotive sector in 2022
- Gender-diverse teams innovated 20% more patents in auto R&D in 2023
- In 2023, only 12% of automotive C-suite executives were women, compared to 27% across all Fortune 500 companies
- Black executives held 5.8% of VP-level positions in major automakers in 2022
- Hispanic leaders accounted for 7.2% of senior management in automotive OEMs in North America in 2023
- In 2022, women comprised only 24% of the total automotive industry workforce in the US, compared to 47% in the overall US labor force
- Black or African American employees made up 10.2% of the automotive manufacturing workforce in 2023, below the national average of 12.1%
- Hispanic or Latino workers represented 18.5% of entry-level automotive assembly line positions in 2021, up from 15% in 2018
Auto industry DEI advances are improving pay and access, but major leadership and opportunity gaps remain.
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