Apple's Tim Cook talks diversity, women, 'the future of our company'

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by coloneltcb • 11 years ago

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pcr0• 11 years ago

His diversity report shows that just 7% of Apple employees are African-American, compared to around 13% in the general population.

Why is this a goal? Why is it a failure if the tech industry doesn't have the exact racial proportions as the general population?

The ultimate goal should be to ensure that anyone can find opportunities to learn CS if they want to, regardless of race.

getsat• 11 years ago

As much as I dislike using overly broad labels:

Liberals tend to favor equality of outcome while conservatives tend to favor equality of opportunity.

These kinds of diversity reports usually show that "white people are overrepresented" and "hispanic and black people are underrepresented". They usually do not mention that asians are GROSSLY overrepresented. It doesn't fit the agenda because, despite being the most successful ethnic group in the US in terms of income, they are not considered "powerful".

M8• 11 years ago

It's a company-level social experiment: what if all people are equal and we pick and compensate them based on proportional quotas rather than based on merits.

There was an experiment like that on a multi-country level. We know how it ended.

Apple's Tim Cook talks diversity, women, 'the future of our company'

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