Except that women and minorities tend to be easily discouraged, not "ambitious" and confident. As someone from a rural background where the best case was usual

Except that women and minorities tend to be easily discouraged, not "ambitious" and confident. As someone from a rural background where the best case was usually HVAC repair and the not-too-uncommon case was addiction and stagnation, and who came into tech from far outside the normal path, this is the problem to fix, and tech company job requirements are way too late in the pipeline to exert much leverage there. This needs to be solved culturally, across years and generations.