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Apple’s latest diversity report shows that of the fruity firm's 83 executives, senior officials and managers, 72 are white and 60 of those are male. A look at Apple’s executive info biography page shows a sea of white male faces. Of the eighteen executives pictured, only three are female – one of whom, Denise Young Smith, of …

  1. Chazmon

    So let the usual debate begin.

    Are they racist and misogynistic or simply hiring the best and resiting pointless tokenism?

    To be honest only they know which and statistics don't really provide proof one way or another.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      I don't like Apple...

      ...but this report / issue is BS.

      Successful companies hire the best people for the job, they don't care what their sexuality, colour, religion or anything else is, as long as they do a great job.

      More Cultural Marxism BS from the Frankfurt School...and I say that as leftie too.

      1. Naselus

        Re: I don't like Apple...

        "Successful companies hire the best people for the job, they don't care what their sexuality, colour, religion or anything else is, as long as they do a great job."

        And it just so happened that the best people for the job turned out to be white men for the 250th year running.

        to be honest, I don't really think that it reflects on Apple, who I'm sure have a fairly typical company attitude to trying to hire minorities and women (i.e., we have to so let's get good ones for whatever role we can find), and does rather more say something about an industry which appears to attract a labour force which is 80% white and 95% male. While it's clearly a fairly big issue, I (for once) agree with Worstall on this - it's a lot more about the activities which women are encouraged to follow in Western culture generally than anything the tech industry does. By the time Apple's hiring managers are involved in the process, it's a good 15 years too late to do anything about it.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: I don't like Apple...

          >> it's a lot more about the activities which women are encouraged to follow in Western culture generally than anything the tech industry does.

          The computer/software engineers in the east are women?

        2. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: I don't like Apple...

          "And it just so happened that the best people for the job turned out to be white men for the 250th year running."

          Just like the only black man to rank in hundreds of white men in the most intelligent people on the planet is DeGrasse Tyson. It's been scientifically proven that white people are more intelligent, but shhh it's an inconvenient truth that we are not allowed admit these days without getting shunned or worse. Of course, it's perfectly acceptable for everyone to celebrate that black men are better at sports and tend to be more well endowed than white men.

          1. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: I don't like Apple...

            It's been scientifically proven that white people are more intelligent

            That's a statement I have trouble believing, can you back that up with any evidence? I tend to treat skin colour like hair colour: interesting, but not really indicative of what's underneath.

            1. Tom 13

              Re: I don't like Apple...

              What rock have you been hiding under for the last 20 years? The book is called The Bell Curve and the science and math behind it cannot be disputed so all the criticism has gone directly to "RACIST!!!!"

              Now there are some caveats on the data. First up, his comparison was whites and blacks, not all races. If you include all races, orientals are tops, then whites, then hispanics, then blacks. Next up, while the data sets are large enough that the differential is statistically proven, the standard deviations within any given group are large enough that only a fool would not interview both candidates and determine their actual skill level.

              That's all on the purely objective level. On the moral level there is still the imperative to treat all people as equal before God.

          2. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: I don't like Apple...

            "It's been scientifically proven that white people are more intelligent"

            ....And more likely to be serial killers and paedophiles. SHHHH!!!!***

            *** Wow, It's so easy to make shit up on the internet.

          3. jonathanb Silver badge

            Re: I don't like Apple...

            White people generally get a better education than blacks, and that certainly helps. Indians generally do pretty well, their next door neighbours in Pakistan, not so well, but there isn't much if any genetic difference between them, so it is all down to opportunities when they are young.

        3. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: I don't like Apple...@Naselus

          Define White. Until JFK came along the Irish were not considered White. Do a search for NINA signs.

          No Irish Need Apply. Poles and other of Slavic decent were considered Sub-human by people like Margret Sanger the founder of Planned Parenthood. The Italians weren't much higher on the list. Until a lawsuit out of Texas a few decades ago decided that Hispanics were a protected class. Hispanic wasn't an ethnic group. On job applications they put white not black. There was no third choice.

        4. DavCrav

          Re: I don't like Apple...

          "And it just so happened that the best people for the job turned out to be white men for the 250th year running."

          Pretty much, yeah. Amazing what being in the large majority, coupled with significantly better education and employment opportunities does for you. What? You wanted the easy way out for altering inequality, a nice quick fix? Rather than accepting that it takes 100 years to educate an entire population.

          1. Naselus

            Re: I don't like Apple...

            "Pretty much, yeah. Amazing what being in the large majority, coupled with significantly better education and employment opportunities does for you. What? You wanted the easy way out for altering inequality, a nice quick fix? Rather than accepting that it takes 100 years to educate an entire population."

            That's pretty much the point I was making with the rest of my post. This isn't Apple's issue - even though I despise Apple - but it is indicative of the continual failure of US society to address structural issues around both race and gender.

      2. Eric Olson

        Re: I don't like Apple...

        There isn't really a lot of evidence that companies have the ability to differentiate between the best and the absolutely adequate. And such a tacit admission is through the use of networking and external firms with their own list of "known quantities" to fill senior and executive positions, or the promotion from within concept.

        All are absolutely essential to ensuring that a company is able to fill such positions with the least amount of turnover or expensive flame-out, but the problem is that the first two are heavily tilted towards incumbent or established groups, while the last one is going to be a reflection of the last 10 to 30 years of hiring practices, whitewashed or not.

        Let's look at it from a the lens of international business and the oft-stated claim that companies hire the best of the best. If that were the case, boardrooms would be filled with people from all parts of the developed and developing world, assuming they can speak the appropriate language and are willing to relocate or commute. So in Japan, you should see numerous American, European, and Pacific faces. The same is true in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, etc. The reality is that all those firms practice the same cultural bias and hire people from their own nation. The US is more problematic as those networks are an old boys club that farm from the same small set of universities.

      3. disgruntled yank

        Re: I don't like Apple...

        The Frankfurt school? Because it's all about the Benjamins?

        1. Mark 85

          @disgruntled yank -- Re: I don't like Apple...

          No... it's about hot dogs... wieners on a bun.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      kill whitey

      Success = tyranny

    3. bombastic bob Silver badge

      It's actually RACIST to make a big deal out of an employee's race. It's also SEXIST to make a big deal out of an employees sex. Why not be RACE BLIND and SEX BLIND and just hire "a person" to fill a position based on qualifications like experience, demonstrated past success, education level, and so forth? 'Diversity' can be expressed by "iron mixed with clay". Nobody would do THAT. TEAMWORK, on the other hand, might be like rebar inside concrete. Each provides its own function based on its best qualities, and the result of 'teamwork' is better than the individual sums. Diversity, on the other hand, WEAKENS the whole. It's a STUPID idea. It should be jettisoned and abandoned like the sewage it is.

      And it figures that race-baiting agitators like Jesse Jackson are the ones screaming about it.

      I'd prefer a color-blind society where NONE of this mattered. We can start by NOT pointing out race all of the time.

      1. Eric Olson

        Why not be RACE BLIND and SEX BLIND and just hire "a person" to fill a position based on qualifications like experience, demonstrated past success, education level, and so forth?

        Except those things aren't blind, either. Let's say you have a handful of resumes in front of you, all with name, age, gender, stripped from it, limited only to those items deemed pertinent to the job. Let's head to the education section:

        Carleton

        Drake

        Oberlin

        Wellesley

        Barnard

        Morehouse

        Spelman

        Here in the US, the first three are "traditional" colleges that are not Ivies but well-respected undergraduate institutions. The fourth and fifth ones are top women-only colleges, and the last two are well-respected but historical black colleges. Throw in Ivies or an engineering college, add in a major, and you can probably make a really good guess as to both the gender and ethnicity of the candidate.

        In the UK, I've heard there are some characteristics you can associate to a person based on their university and it's not much different here.

        But let's say it's a sheaf of public universities with majors that don't go in one direction or another. Next you can look at things like organizations they belong to, or where they interned, or what charitable or non-profit committees the sit on or organize. That will say a lot as well, especially since many women only or race-based organizations were set up specifically to combat the turn of the 20th century's white male only fraternities, professional organizations, etc.

        And even stepping away from all of that, if it was perfectly vanilla or equal chance to be anyone... the people doing the hiring will go with what they know. They have colleges or universities they are familiar with or went to, organizations they worked with or are part of, or positive or negative experiences with people from those places. When presented with millions of combinations, the brain seizes and starts thrashing about looking for anything to grab on to... and that's often the familiar or comfortable.

        Blind just means it's harder to figure out where things are going wrong. It's a societal issue that requires society-level changes. Apple's executive team is just a symptom of a larger problem.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          So it looks there are issues in colleges - women only? why they don't accept men, looks like gender discrimination to me? "historically black"? Another issue that need to be removed. If you let this kind of things happen at some levels, you can't blame much if then they happens at other level also.

    4. Charles Manning

      Why don't we get this anguish about garbage collection?

      We hear nonsense like: More than 50% of facebook users are female, therefore more than 50% of facebook programmers should be women.

      Well women create more garbage than men, so by the same logic most garbage collectors should be female.

      Let's stop obsessing about what's in a person's pants. It is what is in their brains that matters.

      From the 1960s to the present, the medical profession has swung from male to female (70% of UK medical students are female). Why did that not happen to engineering?

      It's probably down to just pure correlation. For example, autistic tenancies a often associated with engineering and with being male.

      Further, intelligent women are often guided (by mostly female guidance councillors) to go into political/leadership roles (eg. womens' studies and politics/law) rather than engineering.

    5. Chris Parsons

      When I had the misfortune to be senior management in a well-known multinational, I was taken to task by HR for having an overwhelmingly white male team. When I asked them whom they wanted me to sack, they said I was being 'unhelpful'. Fortunately, I was made redundant soon after.

    6. Mi Tasol

      Their results say they only hire the best, regardless of sex, race, color or creed.

      Lets face it, if we are honest each race and sex has its strengths and weaknesses.

      Who are the best running athletes - 90+% black

      Who are the best fantasy writers - 90% women

      etc

      etc

      etc

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "In the past year we hired over 11,000 women globally"

    How many were escorts hired for a night or a weekend by executives?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Facepalm

      Re: "In the past year we hired over 11,000 women globally"

      They're probably talking about the ones at the assembly-lines at Foxcon...

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: "In the past year we hired over 11,000 women globally"

        And don't forget the sellers at the Apple stores....

        1. i steal your leccy

          Re: "In the past year we hired over 11,000 women globally"

          also a lot of my friends are black!

  3. dotdavid

    Can you even *have* a techie exec?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      > Can you even *have* a techie exec?

      Yes. It's rare, but it is possible:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru_Iwata

    2. Daniel von Asmuth
      Gimp

      Techies?

      I used to work for Apple in Brussels. They had women on the staff, but all the techies (who were needed to provide customer service) were locked up in a single windowless room (OK, they had a PC with Windows, but it was rarely used).

      They also had good diversity: many Flemish speakers, a few Walloons, and even some who understood English.

  4. codejunky Silver badge

    Eh

    This is news? Is apple actively refusing the best people due to their colour not being white or due to their genitalia? Or is it expected that they should start refusing the best people for the job because they are white or due to their genitalia?

    How about an analysis of the applicants broken down by whatever divisions we like to make of people and compare the skills across the divisions and compare how many get the vacancy or not.

    I dont care if the place is swarming with men/women/ethinicity or robots. I buy a product because it offers what I want no matter who makes it happen.

    *however I do not buy apple products because I find them too expensive for features I dont need or can get cheaper

    1. Tom 13

      Re: Eh

      You are being entirely too logical to address the sorts of ideologues who track race issues. They don't understand that when you tell someone not to think about pink elephants, its 99% likely that by the time you finish the sentence, an image of a pink elephant will have flashed in their brain.

  5. AJ MacLeod

    So?

    Why shouldn't Apple hire and promote whoever they think will be best to fill any particular position? It's their business - if you don't like it, start your own employing mainly black female Asian men from Latin America and their much discriminated against budgies.

    Businesses should be able to hire and fire who they want and gender, religion, or family tree are completely irrelevant in the vast majority of cases.

    Disclaimer: I am no fan of the Apple corporation and don't think much of most of their products (though I'm typing this on a well abused MBP which was probably the best machine available at the time of purchase - they have done good things occasionally.)

    1. JDX Gold badge

      Re: So?

      They should be able to hire who they wish based on who they think is best. However if they think the reason someone is best is partly because of their race, religion, sexuality, gender, etc, I would say we have a problem.

      1. tom dial Silver badge

        Re: So?

        Why would you say "we" have a problem?

        It might be that the company has a problem, probably best addressed by the directors, in that the hiring officers are using criteria not very likely to be related to capability to do the job. That is true equally whether an individual is, or is not. hired or promoted based on such criteria. Preferential hiring based on race, sex, or gender identification is as invidious and inappropriate either way.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: So?

      Businesses should be able to hire and fire who they want and gender, religion, or family tree are completely irrelevant in the vast majority of cases.

      Completely agree! Let's eliminate the age restrictions as well!

      Everyone knows children make much better chimneysweeps than adults.

  6. Phuq Witt
    Facepalm

    Maybe the Old White Dudes...

    ...were better candidates than any women, or youngsters, or 'non-white' people who applied for those posts?

    Nah. It couldn't possibly be that. Apple is 'teh racist' and every single white male in the world is an over-privileged parasite who has had life handed to him on a plate and only got where he is today by stamping the faces of the poor, the female and the non-white into the dirt.

    The Guardian news desk called. They want their high horse back.

    1. JDX Gold badge

      Re: Maybe the Old White Dudes...

      I like that you jump to the assumption this is the case though.

      Interesting that El Reg's largely white, male forum membership is so quick to defend a company for hiring white, male people.

      (I am being sarcastic)

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Maybe the Old White Dudes...

        Upvote for both the sarcasm and pointing out a possible source of bias :)

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    well, they've done quite well so far.

    if it ain't broke, why fix it?

    Hope they don't get browbeaten by the diversity bitches.

    Just like the introduction of new features on all of their products, maybe they can introduce gender and race diversity incrementally? Either that or just go for a job lot of: RuPaul, Bruce Jenner and Mr T

    1. aBloke FromEarth

      Re: well, they've done quite well so far.

      She's called Caitlin. It's not difficult.

      Or do you have a collection of Reg Dwight albums in your itunes library?

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: well, they've done quite well so far.

        My bad, sorry about that aBloke FromEarth.

        Next time instead of Bruce Jenner (Caitlin), i'll say Optimus Prime.

  8. Simon Rockman

    When I worked at Motorola there were plenty of technical women in senior roles. Engineers, VPs, program managers, developers. For an old-fashioned Mid-west company it was surprisingly not male dominated in engineering.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      ...and how's Motorola doing now?

      1. JDX Gold badge

        You're suggesting they did badly because of the women?

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Is that what you think?

      2. Frank N. Stein

        Motorola became Lenovo's b**ch, which probably makes their staff all Asian, after the culling.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Even if you assume lack of diversity is a problem that needs solving where do people expect these people to suddenly appear from? Skills don't grow overnight.

    1. JDX Gold badge

      But one might argue there are a fair number of talented non-white, non-male people who are pre-grown.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        There are, but the non-white are all Indian and Chinese and already are over represented (if we're talking us population). But they aren't classed as black or female so they don't count.

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Are there? Did they demonstrate skilled blacks/women are actively refused, or instead simply they aren't available in good numbers?

        Also, articles like this put two very different issues together - the employees in tech roles, and the executives in leadership roles.

        They are selected in two wholly different ways by wholly different people. Even if the effect is similar, is the cause the same? I'm sure it is not - especially since executive often doesn't come from the tech roles, but from roles where, for example, women are far better present.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Push and Pull

    It's probably not fair to pin the blame *solely* on Apple. There's a great deal of history and resultant self-selection, combined with wider institutionalized biases throughout society.

    If the birth circumstances, poverty, disadvantages, education and experience pipeline wasn't balanced by the larger society, then one shouldn't expect Apple to achieve perfect diversity all by themselves at the other end.

    It was the US Government that allowed slavery for nearly one-half of its entire history. It was the US Government that didn't allow women to vote until 1919, after considering it for 41 years. Just for a couple of examples. They're the ones that set the stage. The echoes are still reverberating, unfortunately.

    That said, Apple could perhaps do a lot better...

    1. lucki bstard

      Re: Push and Pull

      There is also a world outside the US as well, which doesn't suffer from the US prejudices.

      Can the US please finish completing that wall round their country and lock them selves away from the normal world.

      1. disgruntled yank

        Re: Push and Pull

        You fascinate me. Does this world not suffer from US prejudices because it has none, or because it has its own?

        1. lucki bstard

          Re: Push and Pull

          Oh they have their own, but not this US obsession and moral anguish about slavery; which the US combine with their lamentable general education ensures that as far as the average US peep knows, slavery was only in the US and was restricted to the US only and was only solved by the US.

          Still 'Ignorance is Strength' and the US likes the world to know how strong it is.

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    1. Tom 13

      Re: Andre Romelle Young

      "One fewer bitch"

      1. If you are being grammatically correct, the noun would need to be plural.

      2. Being grammatically correct would be bowing to the WASP slave masters. It is important to Dr. Dre and his homies that he NOT bow to thw WASP slave masters and instead reflect the Authentic Black Experience [(TM) pending].

  12. Phuq Witt
    WTF?

    Political Correctness is a Double Edged Sword

    A while back, I was doing some teaching work on an art course at a college.

    One day a group of photographers arrived at the classroom. They told me they were preparing next year's prospectus and asked permission to take some photos. They came into the room and instantly pointed out one of the black girls in the class: "Can we use her?"

    Thing was, the girl in question was one of my worst students ever. She rarely came to class and never handed in any work.

    The photographers hustled her off into another room, where they had set up their lights and tripods, etc. and then set about staging a photo of the student with her work. Trouble was, she hadn't actually done any. So, in the end they posed her pretending to be working on some pieces that had actually been done by one of her classmates [who happened to be white].

    So, in the name of political correctness, this black student became the face of the course in the college prospectus, posing alongside a portfolio of work that had actually been done by somebody else [and not credited, either].

    Oddly, my sympathies lay with the conscientious student who had actually turned up every day and diligently completed the portfolio of work, but was obviously considered 'not ethnic' enough to have her over-privileged white face marring the prospectus.

    Almost smacks of racism, doesn't it?

    1. Tom 13

      Re: Political Correctness is a Double Edged Sword

      Your story reminds me of a similar event on a college campus. I entered college as an astronomy major. My classmates were all white and mostly male. Naturally I also joined the Astronomy club which was again almost all white and mostly male. One our profs was a white immigrant from South Africa. As in your story, someone from the university showed up one night when we were having an open house at the observatory on the roof of one of the labs. Because of the event the single black (ok, technically half-black) female in the physics department showed up as well. As soon as the photographer was there, the SA prof re-arranged the shot so she appeared to be the one directing our attendees to look through the telescope. When everything was said and done, I think there was only ONE white male in the picture.

  13. john devoy

    I attended a talk a couple of months ago given by the guy who spearheaded early xbox development, he said the sad fact was most of the team were men simply because women didn't apply.

    You can't fix the problem with 'affirmative action', that's simply reverse racism/sexism where the best person for job is excluded because they don't meet your quota.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      But Microsoft should've asked themselves why no women were applying?

      What was the root cause? It's not about affirmative action, it's about making the job / the company / STEM careers in general more appealing to *everybody* rather than just one demographic.

      1. DavCrav

        "But Microsoft should've asked themselves why no women were applying?"

        Because fifteen years previously girls weren't interested, and so there is no pool of applicants today? The lead time for skills can be measured in decades.

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    1. Dr Scrum Master
      Unhappy

      Re: Pot calling the kettle black?

      I notice that in the icons that can be attached to posts, all the people are white

      Ahem!

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    That's it.

    Most HR execs are women and I demand equal rights and I want a law that tells me which companies only employ women in these roles so they can be named and shamed into hiring men.

    What a strange world we live in.

    Here's an interesting question, Do companies owned by non-white males not employ white males? Of course they don't they hire the best person for the job

    Here a solution America, improve social mobility through education this serves no purpose. Also sort your media out not every Mexican is an illegal gardener or housemaid and not every black man is a criminal.

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    What is "Diversity"?

    Current Demographics of the U.S.:

    White (non-Hispanic) = 63%

    Hispanic = 17%

    Black = 14%

    Asian = 5%

    Other = 1%

    From this one has to conclude Apple is underrepresented in the following race/ethnic groups:

    White (non-Hispanic) = 54% vs. 63%

    Hispanic = 11% vs. 17%

    Black = 8% vs. 14%

    The gender debate is always interesting because the same people demanding more women in tech fields are strangely silent on what can only be gender discrimination in the nursing field, which is 91% female.

    1. lucki bstard

      Re: What is "Diversity"?

      I think the lack of interest is that the male worker is too busy working and doesn't have the time to organize these protests.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: What is "Diversity"?

      Could you clarify those numbers?

      You cite 54% of Apple managers as being white (non-Hispanic). Apple's own page says 15 of the top 18 are white non-Hispanic (several have Italian last names, not Spanish) which I make 83%. The article doesn't seem to support 54% either.

      As for nursing, you need to look not at the percentage of women in nursing but the percentage of male nurses who become managers.

      77% of the NHS workforce is female but only 25%-40% of the top jobs (medical, financial and CEO), depending on role, are held by women. In HR, seen as a female friendly job, 69% of heads of HR are women, which suggests that men are overrepresented by about a third (23% men in the NHS, 31% heads of HR).

      I can see from the upvote pattern that this is not a popular viewpoint here, but the pro-male bias in Anglophone countries seems to be stronger than some other developed world countries, and the reasons need to be understood.

      1. Tom 13

        @Arnaut the less

        Cherry picking your data to prove Apple is racist is as bad as cherry picking your data to prove the are not. The AC's point still stands: If Apple were racist in the way the people cherry picking the data you want to focus on, those numbers would be true throughout the Apple structure.

        And yes, US laws that they claim are used to address these issues are complete crap. I once worked for a small company that qualified as minority owned, woman-owned, and small. The employee breakdown was at least 60% black, 60% woman with a high representation of orientals. It qualified because it was a tightly controlled corporation with a black male president, a single parent white woman as VP, and a white male as CFO. The black president died of a heart attack. In order to get the black president's family as much of his investment as possible without adversely impacting any of them, they opted to transition to an employee owned company. The woman moved to President and I think they brought in a white male to be the new VP. Even though a rational person would think the raw employee numbers would still qualify for both special classes, the only one remaining after the employee-owned plan started was the small business. And that was on its way out the door too as they were a growing company.

  17. albaleo

    83 wimps

    This tells me Apple has 83 executives who agreed to tick a box classifying themselves as one of Asian, Black, Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Hispanic, Native American, or White. Or did someone tick the box for them, as my local education official offered to do for my kids until I told her she'd better not.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: 83 wimps

      "Or did someone tick the box for them, as my local education official offered to do for my kids until I told her she'd better not."

      Personally I refuse to have an ethnic origin, at least until E M Forster gets his way and I can put "pinko-grey" on the form.

      "Caucasian" I used to be put down as on US forms. Yeah right, I grew up riding little horses across endless steppes.

  18. Paul Hovnanian Silver badge
    Joke

    Only one black exec.

    And that's because the toner cartridge exploded when she was replacing it.

    1. Mark 85

      Re: Only one black exec.

      She used to work for HP then?

  19. Dan 55 Silver badge
    Devil

    Eco credentials and ethnic policy

    Apple have a pretty similar approach for both, a wall of silence, a document or two produced late after some pressure, and finally unconvincing results.

    Mass-produced unrepairable hardware is about as high up in the ecological chart as 1 (one) Hispanic tea lady at boardroom level is in ethnic representation chart.

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  21. Bota

    If..

    Race and gender are social constructs as the mainstream are pushing then why don't the males "identify" as females, 50% of the whites "identify" as black, with a random 5% "identifying" as trans-gender?

    Problem solved. Where shall I send my invoice?

    1. PleebSmash
      Gimp

      Re: If..

      1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California

  22. Matt in Virginia

    Asians are the ones getting the shaft

    Look at the all the successful Asian students, Asian engineers, and Asian scientists - and look at how many are employed by Apple! The Asians are the ones getting hurt by the all-white leadership positions. They have the training, work ethic, and technical success to be in charge. The fact that they are not should be the big story here.

    A look at engineering grads, people getting graduates degrees in the sciences, and people you know that actually produce instead of sitting around and complaining should clearly indicate that more Asians should be at the top level. The lack of Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, Mid-Easterners and Pacific Islanders (yes, the world is more than black and white) should be of little surprise given their lack of degrees, despite all kinds of affirmative action to pay their way to graduating.

    I was once the "Token White Boy" in a scientific company where the rest of the scientific staff were Asian. I was an "outsider" since I didn't speak Chinese, but that didn't stop me from being friends with them, or admiring what they were able to do. Turned out, the Chinese technical director was the best mentor I ever had (much better than my professors).

    Here is some irony for you. My wife is part Native American, which my sons obviously inherited. My oldest son checked all the ethnic boxes on his PSAT exam. He didn't qualify for the National Merit Scholar, but he qualified for a Black scholarship. However, the black scholarship was available only to Blacks, not Native Americans, so he was not able to use his true minority status!

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Asians are the ones getting the shaft

      "A look at engineering grads, people getting graduates degrees in the sciences, and people you know that actually produce instead of sitting around and complaining should clearly indicate that more Asians should be at the top level. "

      That is true, but that would hasten the day when the US loses its USP of large technology companies. Once enough Asians have held top level roles in marketing, product development and finance, the sole differentiating factor of the US economy disappears the moment they go home again. Glass ceilings exist to protect an élite which does not hold its position on merit.

  23. P. Lee
    Boffin

    PALE, MALE AND STALE

    "All this is true, because it rhymes."

  24. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Where are all the disabled black lesbian transgender writers at the reg? I hope you guys aren't making noise about Apple being a pale sausage fest when you're guilty of the same lack of "diversity".

    1. Zog_but_not_the_first

      Eh?

      "Where are all the disabled black lesbian transgender writers at the reg? I hope you guys aren't making noise about Apple being a pale sausage fest when you're guilty of the same lack of "diversity"

      To be honest, I've no idea who is what at El Reg. I just think it's a great source of informed debate.

      After all, on the Internet, no-one knows you're a dog. Or not.

  25. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Apple makes products in all sorts of sizes and colours

    ...so surely that's enough to keep the usual phalanx of screeching SJWs quiet, especially as they all use Apple products in the expensive coffee shops they write their original and relevant blogs in.

  26. Popofla

    Insanity

    What is the genetic and gender makeup of Tata and Infosys? How about Foxconn, what's their profile? How about Huawei are they "balanced".

  27. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Stale?

    This is what's annoying: there aren't a load of non-white, female dominated tech companies that hire women cheap (because the wage gap means you can pay more than hideous white male companies do while still paying less overall), that innovate hugely and invent amazing stuff.

    So, yeah. Stale? White males have invented and shared enough stuff in 100 years to shunt the human race from manual labour to the modern world. Lots of bad things have happened as well, but the cutting edge is almost entirely defined by what men have risked, imagined and laboured to accomplish, and without a safe job, good salary, maternity leave and lots of encouragement and role models. Just did it.

    Thus endeth the rant.

  28. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I really hope The Reg staff is a minority white. Seeing that it is an international mag.

    1. theOtherJT Silver badge

      Given where their offices are...

      ...that would be pretty weird.

      "I really hope The Reg staff is a minority white. Seeing that it is an international mag."

      A quick google - and I admit it's pretty cursory, but it's not going to be that far out - says that the ethnic make ups of the UK (80.5% white) US (77.7% white) and Australia (92% white) would make el Reg a really out there statistical improbability if it was.

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