> If you actually balance on socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, you will tend to regress toward the base population distribution of the qualified applicant

> If you actually balance on socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, you will tend to regress toward the base population distribution of the qualified applicants in your hiring alocality. There is no way to deny that some specialist disciplines have a paucity of non-white-male populations. But this too is a manufactured situation in many fields. Since schools don't directly train computer science skills, they're acquired in the workplace. Workplaces have a higher pass rate on non-white men than white men. We've not no problem investing in young white men. Women of all colors? Not so much. > It's not as if there are a slew of black programmers that no one will hire because of racism. Actually there are a lot of black programmers who have a hard time finding work (or keeping it) because of workplace discrimination. It's not difficult to go to google and find a non-trivial number of cases. I encourage you do so, since I doubt you'd trust any selection I offer. You cannot appeal to the pipeline problem to evade the problem of workplace harassment and discrimination. Even if we normalize for the skewed workplace demographics, white men make more. > The causation goes the other way. In order to get into this field you have to come from a culture that encourages young people to learn math and computers, It didn't take terribly long for you to start insinuating in a post that african american culture hates scholarship, did it? > and a family that can afford to send their children to college. Those conditions create much of the racial disparity in qualified applicants. I'm not sure where college enters into it, but yes, education is dependent on a stable home life. > Groups like "women" or "African Americans" are broad and internally diverse. You can trivially find contradictory opinions. I went and looked around. I found a few specific cases where religious objections were raised but they generally don't then demand more access to the field. Seems contradictory and non-trivial.