The Valley of silica

Silicon Valley or Silicon Valley (English: Silicon Valley) is the southern region of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States. This region has become famous due to the presence of a large number of developers and producers of silicon chips (integrated circuits), and currently includes all high-tech businesses in the region, where the name of the region has become synonymous with the term high-tech.

Despite the existence of many technologically advanced economic sectors, Silicon Valley remains the first in the field of development and new inventions in the field of advanced technology, and contributes to a third of the investment returns in the field of new projects in the United States of America.

Geography

Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley, including the city of San Jose, southern Pennsylvania, and the southern East Bay. There are very large groups of major technology companies based in Silicon Valley, and new companies are being established there with a rocket frequency, despite the high cost of land; thanks to the highly developed infrastructure and exceptional human resources that characterize this region on the one hand, and of course, thanks to the important moral dimension that the process of choosing Silicon Valley as the company's headquarters carries.

Statistics

In 2014, technology companies, released Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Apple, and others, released transparency reports that provided a detailed breakdown of employees. In May, Google said that 17% of its tech employees worldwide were women, and in the United States, 1% of tech workers were black and 2% were Hispanic. In June 2014, she told Yahoo! that 15% of its technical jobs are held by women, 2% of its employees are black, and 4% are Hispanic. Facebook reported that 15% of its tech workforce is female, 3% is Hispanic, and 1% is black. In August 2014, Apple reported that 80% of its tech employees in the world are male and that 54% of its tech jobs in the United States are held by whites, and about 23% are Asians. Shortly after, USA Today published an article about Silicon Valley's lack of diversity in the technology industry, noting that most of its employees are white or Asian, and male. 

According to a 2019 Lincoln Network survey, 48% of high-tech workers in Silicon Valley identify themselves as Christians, with Catholicism (27%) being its largest branch, followed by Protestantism (19%). The same study found that 16% of high-tech workers identify themselves as without religion, about 11% follow another religion, about 8% as agnostics, and about 7% as atheists. About 4% of high-tech workers in Silicon Valley identify as Jews, 3% as Hindus, and 2% as Muslims.