Apple Hired More Than 11,000 Women In Past Year, It Says in Employee Diversity Report

In the past year, Apple hired more than 11,000 women globally, and more than 2,200 African-American and 2,700 Hispanic employees in the U.S., the company said in a diversity and inclusion report released Thursday. It said that women were 35 percent of Apple's global new hires in the past 12 months, while Asians were 19 percent of U.S. new hires, Hispanics 13 percent, and African-Americans 11 percent. Female employees now are 31 percent of the company's total global workforce, and hold 22 percent of global tech-related jobs, Apple said. The Rainbow PUSH Coalition and other diversity advocacy groups have urged tech companies to release their Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEO-1 reports and provide transparent diversity data (see 1508110036). "That's a positive step and we hope that other tech companies do the same," Rainbow PUSH President Jesse Jackson said in a statement. Apple joins Hewlett-Packard and Intel (see 1508120043) as the most recent companies to release EEO-1 data.