Apple’s virtual assistant Siri will soon be getting a new “gender-neutral” voice with the public release of iOS and iPadOS 15.4…
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Apple has strong showing in survey of each generation’s favorite brands
Every year, MBLM produces the largest study of brands based on emotion to come up with a list of favorite brands. Now in its tenth year, the firm…
Steve Jobs did this simple but brilliant thing when promoting employees
Jobs didn’t care about the gender of his colleagues, as long as they could get the job done…
California law would mandate female board members for publicly traded companies headquartered in the state
A controversial new law in California, the first of its kind in the U.S….
Apple CEO Cook meets with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss diversity
For members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who arrived in the Bay Area on Monday, the tech sector…
Black lawmakers will visit Silicon Valley next week to talk to Apple about diversity
A record number of black lawmakers will be visiting Silicon Valley next week to ask executives at Apple…
Apple’s VP of Inclusion and Diversity leaving at year’s end
Apple’s first-ever vice president of diversity and inclusion, Denise Young Smith…
Apple diversity chief Denise Young Smith apologizes to staff for statements made at summit
Apple VP of Inclusion and Diversity Denise Young Smith on Friday issued an internal memo to apologize…
Apple’s first ever VP of diversity and inclusion says she focuses on everyone, not just minorities
Denise Young Smith is Silicon Valley’s most powerful black woman…
Fired Google engineer Damore says the company is hiring and promoting workers based on race or gender
I’m saying that people that go into tech are interested in ‘things’ versus ‘people’ generally…
Here’s why the tech industry doesn’t need more female software engineers
I feel quite strongly that people should stop trying to get women into coding and software engineering…
Apple’s new Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity will report directly to CEO Tim Cook
Apple’s head of Worldwide Human Resources Denise Young Smith will now run diversity programs…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘U.S. will lose its leadership in technology’ unless more women are hired
Apple CEO Tim Cook says that society, including the tech community, is not moving fast enough on issues like equal rights and diversity…
Apple’s board has urged shareholders to reject proposal to tie executive compensation to racial diversity quotas
Apple shareholders will decide next week whether to force the tech giant to diversify its leadership…
Apple Inc. fights shareholders group demand for more diversity
Silicon Valley has a long way to go on diversity, but most tech companies would argue…
Apple says it now pays women, men, whites and minorities equally in the U.S.
Apple says that it has achieved its goal of establishing equal pay for women and men…
Apple touts diversity of recent hires
Apple Inc. Wednesday reported small increases in the share of women and minorities working at the tech giant…
U.S. middle-school girls outperform boys at STEM, so why are there so few women working in those fields?
Overall, girls actually outperformed boys on average in a nationwide assessment of eighth-grader technology and engineering skills…
Boys aspire to work in IT, girls find it boring
The dream jobs of today’s students that shows how male students have begun to aspire for careers in technology while female students…
Apple inches toward workforce diversity
Apple’s diversity divide narrowed a smidgen over the past year, with its global workforce gaining ever so slightly…
Diversity report shows Apple’s U.S. workforce still mainly white and male
Apple’s U.S. workforce is a bit more diverse than it was a year ago, but still predominantly white and male…
Apple’s Board of Directors says a call for diversity is ‘unduly burdensome and not necessary’
Apple’s eight-member board is dominated by white men, with three exceptions…
Shareholder resolution looks to force Apple to put more ‘people of color’ in high-profile positions
Apple Inc. shareholders could make history next year by deciding whether the company should be forced to increase the number of non-white executives and directors…
Twitter hires Apple’s director of inclusion and diversity
Twitter Inc hired a former Apple Inc employee as its vice president of diversity and inclusion…
Apple leads Facebook, Intel, Cisco, Google on gender diversity among Bay Area companies
Gender diversity in the San Francisco Bay Area technology sector has improved over the last five years…
Apple CEO Cook: Corporations need to step up where governments don’t, can’t, or won’t
As CEO, one of the things Tim Cook has brought to Apple is a greater push to address social problems…
Apple’s latest diversity report shows progress
In the United States, Apple has increased its hiring of black and hispanic employees by…
Tim Cook is ‘personally involved’ in improving diversity at Apple Inc.
Apple knows it needs to do more to encourage diversity…
Women in IT security: ‘It is a lopsided team in the field’
Women account for less than 11 percent of info security jobs…
Apple donates over $50 million to diversity efforts
The stark lack of diversity in Silicon Valley is on the agenda at Apple…
Apple CEO Tim Cook met privately with Jesse Jackson regarding diversity
Apple CEO Tim Cook met privately with Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday…
Apple, Amazon refuse to release federal diversity data
Apple and Amazon.com, two of technology’s most powerful companies…
46% of Republicans believe tablets like Apple iPad will replace notebook computers
Do you think electronic tablets, such as Apple’s iPad, will eventually take the place of laptop computers?…
