Going against the law that all news comments are awful, the top commenter wrote:
"How is it a problem? If it is a problem, how did it happen? What do you propose we do to fix it?
Random statistics accompanied by weak implications does not equal good journalism."
In regards to 'how is it a problem?', it's hard to tell if it is or isn't, since in Silicon Valley, it has always been skewed towards these demographics, and as such, we don't really have anything to compare to. I have a hunch though that a lack of diversity in an environment so dependent on innovation will almost always be a net negative.
Is lack of diversity in our industry a problem? I share a strong hunch that it is. That's enough for me to want to talk about it.
So bring on the correlations, the symptoms, the graphs without solutions. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.