Apple Releases New Diversity Numbers, Hired Over 11,000 Women in Past Year

It's the quality of the people that matters. Not race or sex.

As a woman this bothers me. Hire the best person for the job whether it's a man, woman, green person, purple person, alien whatever..

I think identity politics is misguided and ultimately detrimental

How many more qualified men we're ignored in favour of 'diversity'?

I've got a friend that runs a web development company and all but one of his employees are men. The government is on his ass that he needs to hire more women. So what's he supposed to do when there are so few (nearly none) women in the field... and even then, it's especially difficult to find ones that are more qualified than the rest?

Perhaps we should make some efforts to put in more men into hospitals as nurses? Or is feminism really only about benefiting one side only?

Sigh...

How about you hire the people who are right for the bloody job regardless of sex or skin color huh?

I seriously doubt any one has ever been discriminated based on race or sex at companies like Apple, Facebook, Google etc. those companies are what they are because they were progressive and innovative in a first place not because they were politically correct and it's ones best interest to have the best staff available working for you delivering the best results no matter what color, sex or religion they are. That's how successful business operate. I'm afraid this leads no where and will do us all harm, well except those few individuals who got their jobs not because of what they are capable of but because of their skin color, sex or religion.

By the way, US demographics are as follows:

Americans 308,745,538 100.0 %
Non-Hispanic White ('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hispanic_Whites') 196,817,552 63.7 %
Non-Hispanic Black or African American ('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American') 37,685,848 12.2 %
Non-Hispanic Asian ('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American') 14,465,124 4.7 %
Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native ('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States') 2,247,098 0.7 %
Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander ('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islander_American') 481,576 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic some other race ('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo') 604,265 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic two or more races ('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracial_American') 5,966,481 1.9 %
Hispanic or Latino ('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans') 50,477,594 16.4 %

What can I say, whites are being discriminated against the most, based on numbers alone. And they should get rid of 3 in 4 Asians working for them no matter how good and well suited for those positions they are.

Ridiculous.

I think identity politics is misguided and ultimately detrimental

i may get flamed for this but i never understood the american obsession with race and where people are from. like when i was studying abroad people kept asking me "whats my background?" and i didnt even get what they were talking about. "i am half this a quarter of that and a bit of this and that". i was like "i am german ... i guess?" (even though my dad is spanish but why point that out if i wasnt born there)

same thing when i had to sign some papers and it asked if i am caucasian or whatever (i didnt even know caucasian was a word before that)

I agree. Just as America was coming out of the 60's, which brought a clear message that we should be "color blind," an influential segment of liberals declared to us that the only way to achieve equality was to pay attention - pay acute attention - to everyone's race, sex, and perhaps even cultiure, and categorize them that way.

While I can't speak precisely to their motivations, it was an absolutely heartbreaking tragedy. Love and acceptance was replaced with this insidious divisiveness. It infected our politics, and we've been suffering from it ever since.

This is gonna be one of those threads that brings out the best in people.

i may get flamed for this but i never understood the american obsession with race and where people are from. like when i was studying abroad people kept asking me "whats my background?" and i didnt even get what they were talking about. "i am half this a quarter of that and a bit of this and that". i was like "i am german ... i guess?" (even though my dad is spanish but why point that out if i wasnt born there)

same thing when i had to sign some papers and it asked if i am caucasian or whatever (i didnt even know caucasian was a word before that)

Ah yes the racists and misogynists out in force as always.

As are the race-baiters it seems.