Google's White Male-Heavy Staff Underlines Tech's Diversity Problem; NPR, 5/29/14

Elise Hu, NPR; Google's White Male-Heavy Staff Underlines Tech's Diversity Problem:

"All the talk about is confounding when you hold it up against this data; if the technology industry is truly a meritocracy, does it follow that the people with merit are overwhelmingly white and male?

Google brings up the pipeline problem as a possible explanation for its whiteness: It has limited hiring pools of people of color and women...

Education in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) is important, to be sure. We've reported on the social science that shows stereotypes lead girls to quit science.

But there are other ways to think about the utter dominance of white males in tech: Technology journalist Kara Swisher and tech mogul Vivek Wadhwa blame laziness in hiring.

The data are helpful. As our guest blogger Catherine Bracy wrote for us last summer, closing the gender gap in technology on the extent of the problem."