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Apple Releases 2015 EEO-1 Diversity Data Over Weekend (qz.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the here's-who-we-are dept.

theodp writes: Just days after it came under fire for dismissing a call for diversity as "unduly burdensome and not necessary," Apple quietly released its 2015 EEO-1 diversity report (dated 10/6/2015, reflects the 8/1 payroll). Like other tech companies' diversity disclosures, Apple's EEO-1 raw numbers can't really be reconciled to the percentages based on undisclosed raw numbers that grace the infographic-heavy diversity progress narrative CEO Tim Cook spoke to last August. As to why they keep two sets of diversity books, Apple explains, "The EEO-1 has not kept pace with changes in industry or the American workforce over the past half century. We believe the information we report elsewhere on this site is a far more accurate reflection of our progress toward diversity." Taking this stance allows Apple CEO Tim Cook to boast that "in the United States, we hired more than 2,200 Black employees — a 50 percent increase over last year," while ignoring Apple's EEO-1 report, which indicates that Black employees showed a year-over-year net increase of only 1,475 employees and accounted for only 1.9% of the 4,333 YOY net increase in "Professionals" at Apple (White employees accounted for 50.6%, Asian for 42.1%). If you want to check the math, Apple's EEO-1 data (typed in from the content-copy-not-allowed 2015 and 2014 PDFs) and additional charts can be found in this Tableau workbook.

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  1. Need to replace Asians with everyone else? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Given that whites are already underrepresented at Apple compared to their share of the US population, should Asians be terminated so more people of other colors (and whites) can be hired?

    1. Re: Need to replace Asians with everyone else? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Diversity = no white males

    2. Re:Need to replace Asians with everyone else? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      And yet, in fields dominated by women (education, childcare, nursing, human resources) we see practically zero push for diversity in order to hire more men.

    3. Re: Need to replace Asians with everyone else? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      A world where SJWism is correctly identified as a bigoted hate cult sounds quite nice to those of us grounded in reality.

    4. Re:Need to replace Asians with everyone else? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And yet, in fields dominated by women (education, childcare, nursing, human resources) we see practically zero push for diversity in order to hire more men.

      Actually, there is a push to get more men involved in early education. Boys, and especially black boys, tend to do significantly better if their teachers are male, and girls do no worse. Female teachers are four times as likely to refer boys to be medically evaluated for HDD. Males teachers are more likely to make the kid run some laps around the playground.

    5. Re:Need to replace Asians with everyone else? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Actually, there is a push to get more men involved in early education. Boys, and especially black boys, tend to do significantly better if their teachers are male, and girls do no worse. Female teachers are four times as likely to refer boys to be medically evaluated for HDD. Males teachers are more likely to make the kid run some laps around the playground.

      Of course young students need a male influence. It's a little difficult to imagine that the male is needed only for insemination purposes.

      But you see, a male in a field like teaching is automatically assumed to be a pedophile, and in secondary education, considered a sure bet to be into underage girls.

      Of course this is not true, and there are female pedophiles as well, but as a wise man once told me, Perception is indistinguishable from truth if everyone hold that perception.

      If ladies think that seeing a photo of a playboy model's face or a dongle joke keeps them out of a field, they need to try the experience all of the mothers telling everyone that "There's something a little odd about that Mr Smith don't you think? I mean why would a grown man want to teach first graders?" And so it starts. It will take a societal change that isn't going to happen any time soon. There is no amount of money that they could pay me to be in a field where the "customers, and probably half the co-workers would assume I was using the classroom as a sexual partner procurement venue.

      --
      The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  2. Re:Why is this important? by Kohath · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Furthermore, there's a certain word you will want to use when encouraging people to hate each other. Hatred makes people want to hurt their enemies. But people don't like to think of themselves as evil. And intending to harm others seems evil to people (because it is). So you need a way to make it good to hurt people rather than evil.

    Fortunately for you, there's a ready-made concept that solves your problem perfectly: justice. You can hurt whomever you wish and still call yourself a hero simply by declaring it justice. There's nothing quite like justice to quiet the nagging voices of morals and ethics.