Roger Fingas
Apple on Wednesday published its latest "Inclusion & Diversity" update, showing small changes in the gender and racial makeup of the company, and the steps the company is taking toward equal pay for people with the same jobs and performance levels.
As of June, the company was 68 percent male and 32 percent female, Apple said on its website. That's a shift of a single percentage point in favor of women.
In the U.S., the company was 56 percent white, 19 percent Asian, 12 percent Hispanic, 9 percent black, and 2 percent multiracial, another 1 percent being gathered into an "other" category. Notably the company actually increased the percentage of white employees 2 points, although Asian and Hispanic numbers were up 1 point apiece.
Less than 1 percent of American staff were undeclared, something Apple credits to "stronger internal processes and employees properly identifying themselves." Most of the people who were previously undeclared turned out to be white, possibly explaining the above demographic shift.
On the pay equity front Apple claims that it has achieved total equity in the U.S. as of August, but is still working on the problem worldwide — this includes scrutinizing salaries, bonuses, and stock grants. There are no statistics on the company's pay gaps elsewhere.
Like other tech companies Apple has sometimes come under criticism for being predominantly white and male in the U.S. In the past several years, though, the company has tried to adjust its hiring practices at all tiers. Its VP of Worldwide Human Resources, Denise Young Smith, is a black woman, and its retail head is former Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts.
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Apple is mostly white? Who would've ever guessed?
It's not like the company was started by a few white guys or anything like that. :#
Last week I had to go for a check up at a medical center and I of course had to fill out a bunch of forms, while waiting to see the doctor.
One of the questions was of course "what race". I put "other", as it is nobody's business, and I am not interested in racist liberals constantly dividing people up by race. I am an American. I am not a Whatever/Slash/American.
It's a real shame that we can't have a meritocratic society. That we have to punish people for their race, and apple has to publish a report about it.
I've interviewed hundreds of people, mostly white men. A woman or minority would have an advantage simply because they are different (and we value genuine diversity, not fake leftist "diversity" which requires strict conformance to their ideology).
Unfortunately, my teams are mostly white male because those are who apply for the jobs.
The reasons they are the ones who apply for the jobs are because they are the ones who studied STEM in college.
Too many liberals getting degrees in feminist basket weaving and not enough women and minorities getting degrees in STEM areas.
I am in one of those groups that leftists want to protect. They claim that if I don't hire every person in that group that walks thru the door (so that I have "Enough" representation of them) that I am a bigot.
So I'm a bigot against myself?
Here we go again.
Somebody should make a movie where all white people on the planet gets wiped out by a mysterious disease hundreds of years ago, and white people just go extinct, they disappear. We would get to see what the planet would look like today without all of the contributions made to mankind by white people, including technology, medicine, political, human rights, and so on, and so on.
It wouldn't be a pretty picture, I can guarantee you that! And you sure as hell wouldn't be sitting here typing on your computer right now, if you lived in such a world. :#
And proved right straight away.