Well, targeted outreach for applications followed by a blind review process has been shown to be successful in increasing the number of women speakers at conferences. John Oliver was recently in the news for using that approach when looking for writers for his new show (but he has only nine writers, so it’s hard to draw any conclusions from the outcome in his case).
Please don’t pretend that companies can do nothing about who sends the applications. I don’t know what Apple does, but I do know that many companies are doing some kind of outreach already (going to conferences, publishing job adverts in many places, maybe even specifically calling people and asking them whether they would want to apply), so optimizing that with diversity goals in mind would not be something very weird.
Your portrayal of the situation is extremely simplistic and misleading.
Please don’t pretend that companies can do nothing about who sends the applications. I don’t know what Apple does, but I do know that many companies are doing some kind of outreach already (going to conferences, publishing job adverts in many places, maybe even specifically calling people and asking them whether they would want to apply), so optimizing that with diversity goals in mind would not be something very weird.
Your portrayal of the situation is extremely simplistic and misleading.