Tim Cook the Apple chief executive officer has noticed the shortage of enough women at the world's tech firms which would include in his own company. In an interview Cook has mentioned that the technology would not be able to achieve what it could achieve, if it does not have a more diverse workforce.

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As per Cook, there were no good excuses for paucity of women in the technology
The Cupertino-based tech giant had 35 percent women workers in world workforce
Cook opined that everyone shall take some coding course when they finish school

The 61-year-old tech giant mentioned that there have been no good excuses for the paucity of women within the technology sector. Recently, the iPhone manufacturers have launched its founders' development programme especially for women founders and app creators within the UK.

Cook, the person who has taken over the position of CEO of Apple in 2011 and has mentioned that the essence of technology and its impact on humanity depends upon women being at the table, adding that unless there were numerous views at the table were operating, one cannot land up with nice solutions.

The Cupertino-based tech giant had 35 per cent women workers across its world workforce in 2021. In 2014, Apple had launched its original Apple Health Kit in 2014 that too without a period tracker, which had triggered accusations of it being an oversight because of male bias.

As per Deloitte Global estimation, the big tech firms would have nearly 35 per cent female representation in their workforces in 2022 on an average with 25 per cent of them who have been occupying technical roles.

However, he challenges included the lack of girls who have been choosing science and technology, engineering and mathematics subjects at school. Cook mentioned that ‘businesses cannot cop out' and mention that here has been not enough women who have been taking computer science, at the time of stressing about the requirement of fundamentally modify the number of individuals that take up science and programming.

Cook had provided an opinion that everyone should be taking some coding course by the time they would finish school. It was such, so that they could have a working knowledge of the way coding actually works and the way apps could be created.

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