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From the Google NY Times article ( http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/google-releases-emp... ) > Thirty percent of Googles 46,170 employees worldwide are women, the company said, and 17 percent of its technical employees are women....Of its United States employees... 2 percent are black ... Of Googles technical staff, 60 percent are white, 1 percent are black...Though Google did not specifically say how it planned to change the numbers, it said that it hoped releasing them would start a dialogue. The company had made changes in the past to recruit and retain women...

Then it goes on and on about women. If 30% overall and 17% technical are women, compared to 2% and 1% for black, it sounds like women have it relatively good.

Many of my CS classes had more black guys than women of any color. Yet there is almost no discussion of this. It's Jesse Jackson who prompted that this data be released.

While this is about Google, they've been the most open and forthright about it in releasing the data. The situation is widespread through the Valley.

I hear happy horseshit about Watsi and other nonsense in the Valley. Begin at the source - with the LPs of VC's exploiting mostly young talent in the various startups - startups where 1% of the hired technical workers are black, if that.