(Here are reports for Apple, Google, and Microsoft.) Apple actually employs more women in tech positions than Google (20% versus 18%), and women make up a higher percentage of leadership positions (28% to 22%.) There are three women on Google’s board compared to Apple’s two. About 30% of each company’s employees are women, according to recent diversity reports.
Google’s workforce isn’t actually any more diverse than Apple’s. When female developers had to wait to use the facilities at I/O this year, some people actually held it up as a triumph. A regular tradition at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference are tweeted photos showing a line for the men’s room that extends down the hall next to a completely empty women’s bathroom. At the 2014 conference, the only female voice on stage came from Cortana, who sounds like a lady but is really a piece of artificial intelligence technology.ĭevelopers conferences have never been a paragon of gender diversity. Three women took the stage for the keynote, walking through technical subjects like SQL databases and Saas applications. Microsoft also seemed to make a point of having more women on stage at the keynote for its developer conference, Build, held in late April. The last time a Google didn’t have a woman on stage during its annual I/O keynote was 2011. Ellie Powers, product manager for Google Play, has presented for three years running. Chennapragada was one of three women who spoke during the keynote presentation. Arguably the biggest news of the day-Google Now on Tap -was presented by Aparna Chennapragada, the company’s director of product management. Compare Apple’s performance to this year’s Google’s I/O developers conference, which took place at the end of May.
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