Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White 561
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has released a diversity report on the genders and races of its employees. As is common in the tech industry, the majority of Apple's workforce is male — only three out of 10 employees around the globe are female. Broken down, males compose 65 percent of non-tech workers, 80 percent of tech workers, and 72 percent of Apple's leadership.
According to CEO Tim Cook, he's unhappy with Apple's diversity numbers and says Apple is working to improve them: "Apple is committed to transparency, which is why we are publishing statistics about the race and gender makeup of our company. Let me say up front: As CEO, I'm not satisfied with the numbers on this page. They're not new to us, and we've been working hard for quite some time to improve them. We are making progress, and we're committed to being as innovative in advancing diversity as we are in developing our products."
According to CEO Tim Cook, he's unhappy with Apple's diversity numbers and says Apple is working to improve them: "Apple is committed to transparency, which is why we are publishing statistics about the race and gender makeup of our company. Let me say up front: As CEO, I'm not satisfied with the numbers on this page. They're not new to us, and we've been working hard for quite some time to improve them. We are making progress, and we're committed to being as innovative in advancing diversity as we are in developing our products."
Re:55% White (Score:4, Informative)
Actually if you read the article or even looked at the pictures on the report you'd see that the racial numbers are based on US employees and the gender numbers are based on the world employees
Re:Stupid (Score:3, Informative)
Fouled up link. Here's the proper one:
http://curt-rice.com/2012/F04/... [curt-rice.com]
Re:Stupid (Score:3, Informative)
I think this may be a good point here. I've known a lot of women in my life, and the "super-gorgeous blond" woman, if that's true, is probably used to guys falling over themselves to talk to her. Well, in the CS crowd, we weren't jocks, and lets be honest, we're not the most attractive fellows. Most of us have probably been rejected, and at least in my personal case, quite cruely on several occasions. I'm going to be very hesitant to go talk to this "super-gorgeous blond" simply because I know nothing about her, but people similar (looking, yes superficial, but it's the first indicator I have to go off of) to her have been very mean to me in the past.
Did she ask, did she present herself as being friendly. We're not typically assholes, but you do tend to have to make an effort to get to know us.