Apple has added the latest piece to the Silicon Valley diversity puzzle, and it matches the rest of tech companies', including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter, when it comes to gender diversity. Just one in five of Apple's tech employees are women.

However, when it comes to employing a more racially diverse workforce, Apple looks like it’s doing a better job. While most tech companies employ few Black and Latino workers, 18 percent of Apple’s total workforce is Black or Latino. When it comes to the tech side, the numbers are lower but still higher than most other tech companies’, with 7 percent Latino and 6 percent Black workers. Overall, especially in leadership positions, the workforce is primarily white.

As Apple and other tech companies point out in their reports, diversity encompasses more than gender and race. However, low representation of employees of color and women is widely cited as a symptom of a culture of sexism and racial ignorance in the industry.

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