This weekend Apple released the company's latest diversity report, showing progress in its U.S. workforce -- but only by tiny margins. Meanwhile, the company's board of directors has rejected one Latino shareholder's proposal to accelerate change in the upper ranks of Apple, Inc.

According to the EEO-1 Federal Employer Information report released by the company over the weekend, Apple has made progress in the diversity of its U.S. workforce, if progress can be measured by half-percentage points.

The Silicon Valley giant upped its hiring of underrepresented minorities and women last year, but the overall percentages only moved slightly: 30 percent of Apple's U.S. workforce in 2015 were women, up from 28.7 percent in 2014, for example. Latinos made up 11.7 percent of Apple employees in the U.S., compared to 11.5 percent the year before. And Black employees at the company inched to 8.6 percent over 8 percent the year prior.

Of course, for a large company like Apple, those percentages represent pretty big numbers of people. Apple had a net increase of 1,475 black employees, 1,633 Latinos, and 4,586 women over the last year.

But as Engadget noted, compare those numbers to a set of statistics Apple's CEO Tim Cook boasted about in August of 2015, and Apple may have a retention problem.

In its mid-year diversity update, Apple said it had increased hiring of women by 65 percent, with over 11,000 women joining the company since its January 2014 report. The company also said it had hired over 2,200 black employees, and 2,700 new Latino employees during the same period.

That's a lot of women, Latinos, and black employees leaving the company over the last year, though Apple says it prefers to use its own diversity metrics rather the federal EEO-1 system for its public-facing diversity page.

But speaking of the public face of Apple, the least diversity, and most resistance to change, has come from the company's C-Suite. Late last year, Apple shareholder Antonio Avian Maldonado II submitted a proposal that would require Apple's board of directors to "adopt an accelerated recruitment policy" to increase diversity among the company's senior management, executive team, and the board itself.

Avian Maldonado said he decided to push for more diversity at the company's top levels after he and his teenaged son were looking at the bio page for Apple's executives, and his son asked why everyone was white. For context, here's a snapshot of Apple's senior leadership.

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