Apple’s CEO Tim Cook told the BBC that there were “no good excuses” for a lack of women in the tech sector.
Just 35 percent of Apple’s staff in the US are female, according to its own diversity figures for 2021.
Cook told the BBC that he sees it as a “cop out” when firms blame their lack of progress on a shortage of women with computer science qualifications.
Cook said there are “no good excuses” that prevent the tech sector from employing more women. Although he did not seem to be able to explain the lack of diversity at Apple.
The Apple CEO thinks that coding courses should become a compulsory part of education in schools so everyone is equipped with a “working knowledge” of how coding works and how apps are made.
“We have to fundamentally change the number of people that are taking computer science and programming.”
