Michal Marek More than a month before Apple's annual shareholder meeting, two influential investor groups have expressed dismay that there are no women or members of ethnic and national minorities in the company's top positions.
This situation will improve slightly during this year, because Angela Ahrendtsová will be at the head of the retail business. This woman is currently the CEO of the British fashion house Burberry, which produces luxury clothing, perfumes and accessories, in Cupertino she will become a senior vice president, the highest position after the executive director.
Jonas Kron, director of the shareholder law office of the Boston firm Trillium, said in an interview for Bloomberg the following: “There is a real diversity problem at the top of Apple. They are all white men.” Trillium and the Sustainability Group have strongly addressed this issue within Apple's internal structures, and their representatives have said that the issue will be brought up and discussed at the next shareholder meeting, which will take place on the last day of February.
However, the problems with the lack of women in leadership positions are far from limited to Apple. According to research of the non-profit organization Catalyst, which deals with surveys of all kinds, only 17% of the 500 largest US companies (according to the Fortune 500 ranking) are led by women. Moreover, only 15% of these companies have a woman in the post of executive director (CEO).
According to Bloomberg magazine, Apple has promised to work on the problem. In Cupertino, they are said to be actively seeking qualified women and individuals from among minorities who could apply for the highest positions in the company, according to the new bylaws of the company, which Apple wants to satisfy the shareholders. So far, however, these are only promises and diplomatic statements that are not supported by actions. Only one woman now sits on Apple's board - Adrea Jung, former CEO of Avon.
Then let's not be surprised that most companies will go to shit when management positions are awarded on the basis of gender and skin color and not results and experience. obviously these gentlemen sitting there have achieved something and it is stupid to change them for a worse one just because there are few women/ethnic groups in management :-)
"In Cupertino they are already actively looking for qualified women and individuals from among minorities who could apply for the highest positions in the company..." ... to satisfy the American alibi with the name "Say No To Discrimination". Um, do you remember how it actually turned out with the Americans? I mean the real ones I call them Indians.
so fcking what! Apple's management must collect the shares, because they will never get rid of such imbeciles - first Icahn Carl, now some Saxons from Boston, all wise as radios, but only when it comes to filling their pockets, not how Apple works or will work in the future
Those people are not there just because they are men, they are white and they are Americans, but because of what they do. If there were some Chinese in the management of Apple, then probably every device would look like the iPhone 5C :D
This actually means that the two groups of investors are all mysandric racists. :-)
that's why only 15% are women because they are incapable
These imbecile attacks are the end of the entire Zap. Civilization, not just Apple. This plague of debilism that is going on Zap. Civilization only results in more false tolerance, false lines of tolerance, and actually leads to racial intolerance towards whites. In the case of Apple, moreover, someone should not be appointed to the leadership role because she is a woman or black, but because of what she can do. And since most women are very simple and stupid, unfortunately there are not many of them in leading positions.
At least the Leftist idiots will make laws. Skoda, this civilization was otherwise pretty cool…
To prevent the spread of this plague, let's cancel Brussels
She may have one more question about the current leadership. Is it because of discrimination that everyone keeps their jobs so they can hire minorities/women?
No, they will invent new functions in top management, where they will appoint a woman and a member of some minority. The wolf looks and the goat remains intact.