Apple says hired 65 percent more women in the past year

Apple has also released its recently filed Equal Employment Opportunity-1 report for 2014.

According to Intel’s mid-year diversity report released yesterday, the 43.3 percent of the people it hired in the United States over the last six months were either female, African American, Hispanic or Native American.

50 percent of the people hired by the iPhone maker are black, Hispanic, or native American women.

It failed to mention any statistic about how dominated by white males the company was.

Between 2014 and 2015, Apple only grew its number of female workers from 30% to 31%. “Women and under-represented minorities will continue to play a greater role as consumers, influencers, creators and leaders”.

Guess what? The primary demographic at Apple is still white men.

“Our early strides encourage us, yet we know many challenges remain in achieving our goals”, Intel said in an official statement. “It’s not good enough to say we value diversity”, Krzanich said.

The company had, until now, refused to publish any of its EEO-1 reports despite the Rev Jesse Jackson, president of the Rainbow/Push Coalition, making a personal appeal to Apple CEO Tim Cook to do so at the company’s shareholder meeting. USA TODAY has repeatedly asked Apple to release the data.

He also revealed that Apple is providing more funds to institutions and programs that are providing professional training to students in underprivileged communities.

If the road to diversity is going to be done in baby steps, then Apple should take more of them. It’s an ambitious plan, especially as hiring and retaining diverse employees has been hard for major tech companies. We believe in equality for everyone, regardless of race, age, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.

Most companies are just updating what they reported last year, but Apple is providing some new stats.

More than 70% of Apple’s most senior executives are white men, the company’s first official diversity filings shows.

“We want to be a business that we are proud of”.

“Our goal with Intel technology is to help solve real problems and enable experiences that are truly desired by people and businesses”, he said.

The Apple spokeswoman said the company is committed to recruiting diverse board members. We celebrate their differences and the many benefits we and our customers enjoy as a result.

Apple, which for decades prized secrecy, has not gone to the lengths of other tech companies.

“A piece of paper on a wall that says “we care about diversity” is empty If women or minority voices are unwelcome or marginalised in the day-to-day realities of the workplaces”.

New diversity reports from Apple and Intel show that the companies have made an effort to hire more women and under-represented minorities in the past year, but those gains still are not enough to bring parity to the tech giants’ workforces. Jackson suggests such stats would provide “a much clearer picture of what companies are actually doing”.