I think it's pretty clear that qualified candidates are not equally represented. There are probably a lot of reasons for this, socioeconomic, educational, etc.

I think it's pretty clear that qualified candidates are not equally represented. There are probably a lot of reasons for this, socioeconomic, educational, etc. But take a look at the SAT scores by race, or chosen academic majors in college. I'm on mobile with bad internet so I can't link to actual figures now. And my (sarcastic) logic for white percentage boosting is the same as Microsoft's black percentage boosting goal. Asians are significantly over represented at Microsoft (and most of the big tech cos) vs our US population. Microsoft wants to increase the black/Hispanic employee percentage to get more in line with the US distribution. They should also want to do the same with whites, which leaves the Asians set to be decreased significantly.