Twitter is setting modest goals to diversify its workforce while it fights a proposed class-action lawsuit that says the online messaging service discriminates against its female employees. The hiring targets were released Friday along with data showing that Twitter primarily employs white and Asian men in high-paying technology jobs, like most of its industry peers. Twitter is aiming to fill 16 per cent of its technology jobs with a woman next year, up from 13 per cent currently. The San Francisco company also wants women to make up 25 per cent of its leadership roles, from 22 per cent now, and is promising to hire more blacks and Hispanics.

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