There's also the issue that it takes longer to climb to a higher position (even an entire generation), and the US was much less diverse a few decades ago. The "

There's also the issue that it takes longer to climb to a higher position (even an entire generation), and the US was much less diverse a few decades ago. The "Hidden in plain sight" study the article cites [1] says executives are 80% white. While the US is currently 63.7% non-Hispanic white, that number was 80% as recently as 1980. It seems reasonable to expect a 40-year lag between arriving to a country, and reaching the highest corporate positions. The article is frankly deceptive. The US is 4.9% Asian and 63.7% white. The study [1] found that executives in the tech companies examined are 13.9% Asian and 80.3% white. So Asians are 2.25-times as likely to reach an executive position compared to whites. But by comparing against their over-represented numbers among tech workers, the article spins this as discrimination. Look how they phrased it: Another study, from 2013, found that while there were nearly as many Asian professionals as white professionals working at five big tech companies [..], white men and women were 154 percent more likely to be an executive than their Asian counterparts; There were "nearly as many Asians as whites" in a company, but there are 13-times as many whites as Asians in the US! This is presented as a completely neutral, non-problematic fact, and that this over-representation doesn't reach even further is what was cast as the problem. [1] https://www.ascendleadershipfoundation.org/research/hidden-in-plain-sight https://www.ascendleadershipfoundation.org/research/hidden-i...