Apple Says Wage Gap And Diversity Issues Addressed, No Change Among Top Brass

Apple has been struggling with the issue of wage disparity between men and women for years, and the same went with the matter of diversity in their workforce. The tech company has been trying to address this for years, and this time, it says that it has finally fixed the problem. Unfortunately for Apple, it was only focusing on one part of the issue, and people are not fooled.

Apple announced recently that the men and women of all ethnicities that are working for the company are getting the same wages, CNET reports. This was part of the annual inclusion and diversity report by the company, where Apple indicated that it finally has pay equity among its employees.

"Women earn one dollar for every dollar male employees earn,” the report read. “And underrepresented minorities earn one dollar for every dollar white employees earn.”

For some context, the wage gap between men and women was at 78 cents to the dollar according to the U.S. government. By making wages the same in terms of the rate, at least, the tech giant asserts that it has dealt with an issue that has plagued the tech industry for years.

As Fortune points out, however, the top brass at Apple has seen no improvements in the matter of diversity. Top executives are still mostly male and still mostly white, which is a matter that was brought up before.

Standing at 62% white male, the disparity among leaders that fill the roles of managers and up has been unchanged since 2015. A spokesperson from Apple spoke with Fortune with regards to the remaining lack of diversity among its executive positions and the answer might have something to do with the high retention rate of the company.

Basically, executive roles are filled with roughly the same people as they were last year because very few people in those roles have been let go.

“It’s not an excuse, but it is a potential explanation,” the spokesperson says.