Apple Releases New Diversity Numbers, Hired Over 11,000 Women in Past Year

[MacRumors]

Apple has released updated diversity numbers that provide a breakdown of the company's workforce based on gender, race and ethnicity in 2015. The new data reveals that Apple hired over 11,000 women globally over the past year, a 65% increase over the previous year, in addition to 2,200 Black employees, a 50% year-over-year increase, and 2,700 Hispanic employees, a 66% increase over the previous year.

Apple says that is has hired more diverse candidates in 2015 than any year to date, with the percentage of new hires in the past year broken down as follows: 35% Women (Global), 19% Asian (U.S.), 13% Hispanic (U.S.), 11% Black (U.S.). Apple's global gender split is now 69% male and 31% female, a marginal change from last year's 70% male-30% female split.

Apple CEO Tim Cook:

Diversity is critical to innovation and it is essential to Apple's future. We aspire to do more than just make our company as diverse as the talent available to hire. We must address the broad underlying challenges, offer new opportunities, and create a future generation of employees as diverse as the world around us. We also aspire to make a difference beyond Apple. [...]

We are proud of the progress we've made, and our commitment to diversity is unwavering. But we know there is a lot more work to be done.

Some people will read this page and see our progress. Others will recognize how much farther we have to go. We see both. And more important than these statistics, we see tens of thousands of Apple employees all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, working together. We celebrate their differences and the many benefits we and our customers enjoy as a result.

Apple's overall race and ethnicity breakdown in the United States is now 54% White, 18% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% Multiple, 1% Other and 6% Undeclared. The data reflects the past year through June 27, 2015 and varies when broken down into individual categories including tech, non-tech, leadership, retail and retail leadership.

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[Four oF NINE]

I think identity politics is misguided and ultimately detrimental

 

[MvdM]

It's the quality of the people that matters. Not race or sex.

 

[kupkakez]

As a woman this bothers me. Hire the best person for the job whether it's a man, woman, green person, purple person, alien whatever..

 

[bushido]

i may get flamed for this but i never understood the american obsession with race and where people are from. like when i was studying abroad people kept asking me "whats my background?" and i didnt even get what they were talking about. "i am half this a quarter of that and a bit of this and that". i was like "i am german ... i guess?" (even though my dad is spanish but why point that out if i wasnt born there)

same thing when i had to sign some papers and it asked if i am caucasian or whatever (i didnt even know caucasian was a word before that)

 

[bladerunner2000]

How many more qualified men we're ignored in favour of 'diversity'?

I've got a friend that runs a web development company and all but one of his employees are men. The government is on his ass that he needs to hire more women. So what's he supposed to do when there are so few (nearly none) women in the field... and even then, it's especially difficult to find ones that are more qualified than the rest?

Perhaps we should make some efforts to put in more men into hospitals as nurses? Or is feminism really only about benefiting one side only?

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

As a woman this bothers me. Hire the best person for the job whether it's a man, woman, green person, purple person, alien whatever..

The ones you mentioned are only 5/64 of what Facebook allows for selection.

 

[iKrivetko]

First they hire 11,000 women, then they give you 16GB storage in the base iPhone.

 

[MacLC]

How many more qualified men we're ignored in favour of 'diversity'?

I've got a friend that runs a web development company and all but one of his employees are men. The government is on his ass that he needs to hire more women. So what's he supposed to do when there are so few (nearly none) women in the field... and even then, it's especially difficult to find ones that are more qualified than the rest?

Perhaps we should make some efforts to put in more men into hospitals as nurses? Or is feminism really only about benefiting one side only?

Be careful what you wish for, even if sarcastically. Some men have already sued Hooters for the right to be "servers" there.

 

[soupcan]

Sigh...

How about you hire the people who are right for the bloody job regardless of sex or skin color huh?

 

[Daws001]

69...

 

[JustThinkin']

I think identity politics is misguided and ultimately detrimental

i may get flamed for this but i never understood the american obsession with race and where people are from. like when i was studying abroad people kept asking me "whats my background?" and i didnt even get what they were talking about. "i am half this a quarter of that and a bit of this and that". i was like "i am german ... i guess?" (even though my dad is spanish but why point that out if i wasnt born there)

same thing when i had to sign some papers and it asked if i am caucasian or whatever (i didnt even know caucasian was a word before that)

I agree. Just as America was coming out of the 60's, which brought a clear message that we should be "color blind," an influential segment of liberals declared to us that the only way to achieve equality was to pay attention - pay acute attention - to everyone's race, sex, and perhaps even cultiure, and categorize them that way.

While I can't speak precisely to their motivations, it was an absolutely heartbreaking tragedy. Love and acceptance was replaced with this insidious divisiveness. It infected our politics, and we've been suffering from it ever since.

 

[Renzatic]

This is gonna be one of those threads that brings out the best in people.

 

[pauliaK]

I seriously doubt any one has ever been discriminated based on race or sex at companies like Apple, Facebook, Google etc. those companies are what they are because they were progressive and innovative in a first place not because they were politically correct and it's ones best interest to have the best staff available working for you delivering the best results no matter what color, sex or religion they are. That's how successful business operate. I'm afraid this leads no where and will do us all harm, well except those few individuals who got their jobs not because of what they are capable of but because of their skin color, sex or religion.

By the way, US demographics are as follows:

Americans 308,745,538 100.0 %
Non-Hispanic White 196,817,552 63.7 %
Non-Hispanic Black or African American 37,685,848 12.2 %
Non-Hispanic Asian 14,465,124 4.7 %
Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native 2,247,098 0.7 %
Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 481,576 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic some other race 604,265 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic two or more races 5,966,481 1.9 %
Hispanic or Latino 50,477,594 16.4 %

What can I say, whites are being discriminated against the most, based on numbers alone. And they should get rid of 3 in 4 Asians working for them no matter how good and well suited for those positions they are.

Ridiculous.

 

[Saucesome2000]

i may get flamed for this but i never understood the american obsession with race and where people are from. like when i was studying abroad people kept asking me "whats my background?" and i didnt even get what they were talking about. "i am half this a quarter of that and a bit of this and that". i was like "i am german ... i guess?" (even though my dad is spanish but why point that out if i wasnt born there)

same thing when i had to sign some papers and it asked if i am caucasian or whatever (i didnt even know caucasian was a word before that)

Because in America we have to find things to bitch about. "Issues" such as this are the epitome of first world problems.

 

[LewisChapman]

That this is even a thing denotes that inequality is ever-present.

 

[winston1236]

So whats the end goal of this? We can see in this chart they have hired 16 times the % of the Asian population in the US while all others are lacking. Why would any company want to try to define such a complicated policy that will always exclude someone?

 

[Eraserhead]

That this is even a thing denotes that inequality is ever-present.

Yes, women are still treated worse by society.

 

[Dargoth]

i may get flamed for this but i never understood the american obsession with race and where people are from. like when i was studying abroad people kept asking me "whats my background?" and i didnt even get what they were talking about. "i am half this a quarter of that and a bit of this and that". i was like "i am german ... i guess?" (even though my dad is spanish but why point that out if i wasnt born there)

same thing when i had to sign some papers and it asked if i am caucasian or whatever (i didnt even know caucasian was a word before that)

Really, you should say "no, I am not from the Caucasus region. A bit northwest of there actually."

 

[nuckinfutz]

As a woman this bothers me. Hire the best person for the job whether it's a man, woman, green person, purple person, alien whatever..

Largely impossible. Any HR department will tell you that a resume only tells you a scant few details about a person. It doesn't tell you how well they work with other people or deal with ambiguity. I think we need to stop fooling ourselves into thinking that a human's work efficacy can be accurately summed up on a couple of pages.

Many of the smartest people I know have rather average higher education experience or even none.

 

[66318]

I think identity politics is misguided and ultimately detrimental

How is it detrimental? To who?

 

[agsystems]

As a woman this bothers me. Hire the best person for the job whether it's a man, woman, green person, purple person, alien whatever..

I understand what Tim is trying to do but the problem traces back to the education system. I work for a huge corporation and our IT dept is 80-85% male (very diversified: Asian, blacks, whites, Spanish, European, etc) with the rest of the women doing user training, project management and a few in managerial positions.

Even when we ask the recruiter to specifically send us women for very technical positions in networking, telephony and software development the numbers that we see are minuscule. In my case, when I graduated there was this stigma of IT being boring and difficult so I don't have an answer on how we can improve the odds of more women in IT.

 

[Edgar Spayce]

As a woman this bothers me. Hire the best person for the job whether it's a man, woman, green person, purple person, alien whatever..

They should hire people like you, intelligent human before being a stupid SJW.

SJW have hijacks all minorities causes and discourses and are setting the detrimental seeds for a dangerous blowback when the liberal propaganda crumbles under the weight of it's own contradiction, manipulation and lies (I'm precise: I'm French, so I'm not a conservative either, and I'm afraid of what the liberal fascism has set for the coming conservative political trends...)

 

[agsystems]

I seriously doubt any one has ever been discriminated based on race or sex at companies like Apple, Facebook, Google etc. those companies are what they are because they were progressive and innovative in a first place not because they were politically correct and it's ones best interest to have the best staff available working for you delivering the best results no matter what color, sex or religion they are. That's how successful business operate. I'm afraid this leads no where and will do us all harm, well except those few individuals who got their jobs not because of what they are capable of but because of their skin color, sex or religion.

By the way, US demographics are as follows:

Americans 308,745,538 100.0 %
Non-Hispanic White 196,817,552 63.7 %
Non-Hispanic Black or African American 37,685,848 12.2 %
Non-Hispanic Asian 14,465,124 4.7 %
Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native 2,247,098 0.7 %
Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 481,576 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic some other race 604,265 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic two or more races 5,966,481 1.9 %
Hispanic or Latino 50,477,594 16.4 %

What can I say, whites are being discriminated against the most, based on numbers alone. And they should get rid of 3 in 4 Asians working for them no matter how good and well suited for those positions they are.

Ridiculous.

Thank you, a real eye opener.

 

[nuckinfutz]

Really, you should say "no, I am not from the Caucasus region. A bit northwest of there actually."

The classic definition of the term that has been enlarged in contemporaneous times to encompass skull shape as well. Caucasian is such a horrible term that become more vacuous the more it becomes abused.