Apple promotes Gender Diversity at wokplace

Clearly, a lot of work needs to be put in to ensure gender balanced workplaces everywhere in the world, but just like Rome took more than a day to be build, we might have to wait for a while before this can be achieved. Some companies however, have continuously taken initiatives towards creating a diverse working environment, which is causing a ripple effect on other smaller businesses. Apple happens to be one of them.

Recently, Apple Inc. acquired 26 firms in 15 months while pursuing increased diversity. The company even donated $50 million to increase diversity in the tech industry.

Doug Menuez, the American photographer who at the Apple Computer, documented various projects, including the Apple Newton from its early stages in 1992 to its launch in 1993, talked about the need for diversity. In an interview with Inc.com, Menuez talked about how John Sculley’s commitment to diversity helped him in his business.

Doug Menuez

Picture By: Menuez.com

He said: “I was with Apple during the Newton Project when they started to bring more women in …This was the early 90s and they were just beginning to come in. But John Scully was a champion of diversity and he bought people from different cultures and races and women onto that team.”

He added that the conversations between the engineers and the product marketing people were always interesting and more dynamic and this had a great impact on the final product as well. Menuez continued, “…if you are writing the code, you are controlling the machine or a part of how that machine behaves and that effects how you behave and that can affect the whole culture. So the more people with more worldviews on the table¸ I think the better,” according to Inc.com.

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