Apple says hired 65 percent more women in past year

1	Apple Store employees fill orders of the new iPhone 6 in Palo Alto, California.
2	Apple said it had hired over 11,000 women globally in the past year-65 percent more than the previous year-to boost employee diversity.
3	"In the first 6 months of this year, nearly 50 percent of the people we've hired in the United States are women, Black, Hispanic, or Native American," Chief Executive Tim Cook said in a message on the company's website.
4	Cook maintained there was "a lot" more work to be done.
5	Apple had 92,600 full-time employees as of September 2014.
6	Diversity reports in the recent past have spurred a national debate about the lack of diversity at Silicon Valley's tech companies and how to improve gender and race ratios.
7	Google said in June that 21 percent of tech hires last year were women, boosting overall number of women in technical roles by 1 percent, as part of efforts to increase diversity.