Study finds too few women, minorities in tech

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Sensationalistic title stating nothing

"Too few" women and minorities? Just how many is the right amount, and how many is too much?

If there's active discrimination, then it needs to be rooted out and stopped. However, if it's just a lack of interest that happens to fall along gender or race lines, then nothing good can come from artificially changing the diversity makeup of the industry.

For us to be and stay competitive with other nations in this (or any) field, we need the best and brightest doing the jobs. It doesn't matter what their race or gender is. The minute you start quantifying those factors and saying things like there are "too few" of them in the industry, you set it up for disaster. I guarantee India and China don't concern themselves with creating an artificially multiracial work force, though China (and others) probably do discriminate against women to some degree (based on their cultural views of women as inferior to men).

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