Latest Apple diversity report claims US pay equity, modest changes in gender & race
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.
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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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.
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?
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.
I am of course aware that certain conditions are more common for certain races, such as diabetes, if somebody is "African-American".
I always second guess any doctors and medical staff, as mistakes are often made, I've witnessed it myself, especially in today's Obamacare society, which translates into inferior healthcare.
Just because somebody is a nurse or a doctor, that doesn't mean that they can't be clueless, or wrong.
A couple of years ago, my regular doctor wasn't available, so I went to a different clinic, and I ended up walking out with 2 different medicines, which I found out should not be taken together.
It's a good thing that I only trust myself, and not the intern or doctor or whatever they call themselves, who prescribed that medicine.
A few weeks after that, I went to see my regular doctor again, who happens to be competent, and he just shook his head, and he could not believe what the previous clinic had prescribed.
So moral of the story. Don't trust anybody, always double check, and yes, just because somebody is a doctor, that doesn't mean that they aren't clueless or that they can't make mistakes. Take responsibility of matters that affect yourself, and only a complete, ignorant idiot would put blind faith into somebody just because they are a healthcare worker or a doctor or a nurse.
Assuming that there's a political reason for asking the question just demonstrates your narrow thinking. The reason that they ask these questions (and they're asked all over the world) is to track genetic conditions such as Sickle Cell Anaemia which at one time was thought to only affect people of African descent. It's entirely possible that this was discovered to be false because someone who was not of African descent, answered his questionnaire and opened up a whole new line of scientific enquiry.
But well done you for proving a point, whatever it was.
You may have a point there. I bet not a single one of those charlatans diagnosed your swollen ego.
/she hires mostly in China and India which means 100% Chinese and 100% Indian respectively.
There's also no guarantee that the data would not be used for political or nefarious purposes eventually. There have been numerous govt agencies that have illegally gone after people for political, partisan reasons, such as the IRS.
That's not what they're claiming; that's how you've chosen to see it.
A diversity policy does not say hire people because they're black and/or female.
A diversity policy says make sure that you do not overlook the best people because they are black or female.
You probably can't see it, but there's a big difference.
I seriously doubt many people are going to lie about their sex, race or age on a medical record, as that could negatively impact their health, diagnoses and treatments.
No killing of indigenous people with smallpox, nor plying them with alcohol or opium to incapacitate them.
Need I go on? That would be a great movie.