Apple, Amazon refuse to release federal diversity data; USA Today.com, 12/8/14

Jessica Guynn, USA Today; Apple, Amazon refuse to release federal diversity data:

"American companies collect and report information about their workforces to the federal government each year in a form called the EEO-1.

The EEO-1 is a standard form which breaks down race, ethnicity and gender of workforces by job classification...

"I hope everyone eventually shares their EEO-1s," Hudnell said. "If we are going to commit as an industry to drive improvement in a collective fashion, we cannot do it with inconsistent data."

Stanford fellow Vivek Wadhwa says Apple and Amazon have a responsibility to the public to be more "publicly accountable for diversity."