> If they really would care about diversity they could have Google schools in prisons to educate the more motivated and promising inmates in the skills Google r

> If they really would care about diversity they could have Google schools in prisons to educate the more motivated and promising inmates in the skills Google requires. Precisely. Or sending recruiters to Mississippi/Alabama/Louisiana/etc to identify brilliant 18 year olds who can’t go to college because of their socio-economic situation, etc. One can come up with many other ways to directly attack these problems. But really, most at Google/FB/Apple/etc do not believe there is much of an issue. They just want to appease the media by saying how much they care about diversity, resulting in terribly misaligned incentives all over, resulting in the kind of crazy situations the original linked article describes.