[IanDrake]

As a husband to a female minority executive in aerospace and a brother to an engineer/executive in green tech, I have to say this is focused on the wrong issues. From what I have seen, qualified women get hired and get promoted. The biggest problem that remains is one of conduct by male employees on the job.

Also, for the life of me, I just can't understand why people want to take a census and say ok, our population is 50%/50% male/female, 50%/20%/15%/5% white/black/hispanic/asian, 80%/9%/9%/2% straight/gay/lesbian/transgender, so let's make sure those magic ratios are equal across all home makers, software developers, the rich, the poor, etc... There is no end to it and it's folly.