Silicon Valley is not a meritocracy because ~75% of those in leadership positions are white males? 19% of engineering and 18% of CS BA were for women in 2014.

Silicon Valley is not a meritocracy because ~75% of those in leadership positions are white males? 19% of engineering and 18% of CS BA were for women in 2014. For African Americans, 4% of BA were for engineering. Regardless of whether or not there is an institutional/societal reason for this, it is absolutely moronic to blame the place where engineers WORK for not having a perfectly balanced distribution of engineers when the pool available is so clearly not perfectly balanced. The judgement of a meritocracy should be on whether or not a qualified individual can succeed in that environment purely on their own merits. Judging that based off of the racial distribution and gender distribution of the resulting pool is completely nonsensical. I put 1 red jelly bean into a jar for every 5 blue jelly beans. I set the jar out and let people eat. If 1 red jelly bean was eaten for every 5 blue jelly beans, does it make sense to say people like the blue ones 5x more? Would it only be even if people ate the exact same amount of each?