{"id":143762,"date":"2015-08-16T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T07:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=143762"},"modified":"2015-08-16T07:46:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T07:46:31","slug":"apple-hired-65-percent-more-women-in-the-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=143762","title":{"rendered":"Apple hired 65 percent more women in the past year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"articleLocatio&lt;\/span&gt;n\">Apple said it had hired over 11,000 women globally in the past year &#8211; 65 percent more than the previous year &#8211; to boost employee diversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the first 6 months of this year, nearly 50 percent of the people we&#8217;ve hired in the United States are women, Black, Hispanic, or Native American,&#8221; Chief Executive Tim Cook said in a message on the company&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Cook maintained there was &#8220;a lot&#8221; more work to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Apple had 92,600 full-time employees as of September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Diversity reports in the recent past have spurred a national debate about the lack of diversity at Silicon Valley&#8217;s tech companies and how to improve gender and race ratios.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u00a0said in June that <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/02\/21-percent-of-tech-hires-in-2014-were-women-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">21 percent of tech hires<\/a><\/strong><\/span> last year were women, boosting overall number of women in technical roles by 1 percent, as part of efforts to increase diversity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple said it had hired over 11,000 women globally in the past year &#8211; 65 percent more than the previous year &#8211; to boost employee diversity. &#8220;In the first 6 months of this year, nearly 50 percent of the people we&#8217;ve hired in the United States are women, Black, Hispanic, or Native American,&#8221; Chief Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":143764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-143762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}