[ccajas]

This is a nice project, and very interesting to see how demographics differ in different niches within a profession.

I know that hiring for increased diversity in certain professions is very difficult. In particular this is difficult in professions where the education-to-profession pipeline for qualified individuals is "bottlenecked" from earlier points in peoples' lives. Company initiatives may not be nipping the problem in the bud, but rather are counteracting a problem that has already started earlier.

That is, not only are certain groups underrepresented in some profession, but they are also underrepresented in the population of students and self-learners that are interested in that profession. It is indeed a complex problem which may require "uprooting" of trends that penetrate deep in family traditions, ethnic economic niches, or improving social networks from people that have an educational or an income disadvantage.