Apple hired 65% more women in the past year

[Lima Rahman]

Apple Inc said it had hired over 11,000 women globally in the past year – 65% more than the previous year – to boost employee diversity.
 

“In the first 6 months of this year, nearly 50% of the people we’ve hired in the United States are women, Black, Hispanic, or American,” CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s website.

 

Cook maintained there was “a lot” more work to be done. Apple had 92,600 full-time employees as of September 2014.

 

Diversity reports in the recent past have spurred a national debate about the lack of diversity at Silicon Valley’s tech companies and how to improve gender and race ratios.

 

Google said in June 21% of tech hires last year were women, boosting overall number of women in technical roles by 1%, as part of efforts to increase diversity.