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You seem to be missing the point entirely (most clearly evidenced by you using the term "clear minority", when no one made anything resembling that claim), so let me try to break it down for you.

The goal is to eventually reach a 50/50 gender distribution (or as close as possible) for the sake of diversity, right?

If you understand the concept of trends, and you are actually looking at all of the things that you just listed, then you should be able to see that we are heading towards an outcome where the female 50% is overwhelmingly Asian, from middle and upper-class backgrounds.

I personally don't have a problem with this. I really don't care. I'm not Asian or white, but all of my friends are. More culture fit matches for me.

But I'm not the one who thinks that classism (and the subtle racism associated with it) can just be swept under the rug by focusing exclusively on gender. You don't actually support diversity if you're okay with the way things are currently headed, so please don't claim as much.

I also suggest you google the term "plurality" and learn what it means within the same context as minorities and majorities. That may have been the word you were looking for.




You’re layering a lot of assumptions onto my post, about me and the points you think I’m trying to make. Almost all of them are inaccurate.

The only point I’m trying to make is this: your claim that “there are as many Asian female software developers in the Bay Area as there are white male software developers” is false according to the data we have, and it doesn’t make logical sense either. That’s it.

From the link I shared:

Reveal’s data shows that the share of women of color drops higher up at large tech companies. Among professionals – engineers, designers and analysts, for example – 12 percent were Asian women in 2016, but 8 percent of managers and 4.5 percent of executives were Asian women.

The reverse is true for white men, who accounted for about 39 percent of professionals, 47 percent of managers and 59 percent of executives.




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