[mkramlich]

I think we should be gender and race blind, and therefore also neutral, when it comes to thinking about whether any given permutation "should" be in tech, or should be in it in greater or lesser numbers than currently. I think a serious intellectual mistake is made whenever someone sees a situation where say < 50% of the folks in a given field are female, and therefore concluding that's a "problem" or the result of some oppression, or that any given field should be comprised of X% race A, Y% race B, X% race C, and so forth. Because we just cannot know for sure what the "proper" or natural percentage is supposed to be in these cases, as the baseline to compare against an allegedly unfair percentage. Instead, let's work to make both the tech and the field equally (and by that I mean neutrally) available, and friendly, and useful, for everybody, period, and then let the chips fall where they may.