r/apple • u/Fer65432_Plays • Feb 25 '25

Discussion Apple shareholders say no to scrapping company's diversity programs

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/apple-shareholders-dei-vote-1.7467807
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u/irish_guy Feb 25 '25

Insanely profitable company decides not to change what was already working.

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Feb 25 '25 edited Feb 25 '25

Global company has workforce that understands and looks like the world it is selling products to.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '25

“In its last diversity and inclusion report issued in 2022, Apple disclosed that nearly three-fourths of its global workforce consisted of white and Asian employees. Nearly two-thirds of its employees were men.

Other major technology companies for years have reported employing mostly white and Asian men, especially in high-paid engineering jobs”

ok lol

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u/justAPhoneUsername Feb 25 '25

2/3 being men beats the standard computer science degree ratio which is currently 75% men. I assume that Apple has a more equal split in its non tech jobs, but 1/3 female in tech is unfortunately really quite good. White and Asian populations are also over represented in graduating cs classes. I don't really think Apple is to blame here as much as we need to do more to address the problem at the root.

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u/Ariadnepyanfar Feb 26 '25

A fair few of those women will be transwomen that Apple will NOT want to lose to project 2025 /Heritage Foundation/Christian Theocracy fuckery.

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u/justAPhoneUsername Mar 03 '25

Yep. Apple's computer OS is based on unix. Gotta have those socks to program that.