Not to specifically defend Apple, but the race demographic issue is slightly more complicated.
The inequality is more systemic. Educational investment and economic inequality means that there’s a difference in educational outcomes for the black population in the US.
Basically, to have representation in line with the population Apple needs to make a deliberate effort to hire in that proportion. Having an unbiased hiring process falls back to the systemic bias that shifted the hiring pool. That 7% is basically the representation of black people in the hiring pool for high tech jobs in the US.
There are still major issues with tech companies and diversity, such as not addressing the issues that created an environment that pushed people out of the sector, but that 5% difference represents a naively unbiased process, as opposed to a specifically biased one.
Not to specifically defend Apple, but the race demographic issue is slightly more complicated.
The inequality is more systemic. Educational investment and economic inequality means that there’s a difference in educational outcomes for the black population in the US.
Basically, to have representation in line with the population Apple needs to make a deliberate effort to hire in that proportion. Having an unbiased hiring process falls back to the systemic bias that shifted the hiring pool. That 7% is basically the representation of black people in the hiring pool for high tech jobs in the US.
There are still major issues with tech companies and diversity, such as not addressing the issues that created an environment that pushed people out of the sector, but that 5% difference represents a naively unbiased process, as opposed to a specifically biased one.