I think that the focus on "percentage of workforce" as a proxy for "amount of discrimination" is a bad idea. Frankly, I don't know how discrimination in the wor

I think that the focus on "percentage of workforce" as a proxy for "amount of discrimination" is a bad idea. Frankly, I don't know how discrimination in the workplace ought to be measured. I know that every single woman I know that works in tech has experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. At a company where I worked, male employees started telling female employees that they shouldn't be wearing pants to work and should be instead be wearing dresses and skirts. Certainly, these experiences are anecdotal, but I've seen enough anecdotes personally (in addition to reading articles about discrimination at Uber and Blizzard) to suggest that discrimination is a non-negligible problem. I'd definitely be in favor of accurately measuring discrimination since, at the moment, all I know is that it happens to _some_ people, but I have no clue how big that group is. I doubt that tech companies have any motivation to actually try to measure this accurately. A lot of the "pro-diversity" actions that tech companies have taken seem to be aimed to placate (sometimes misguided) employees worried about diversity issues, rather than trying to actually solve any actual problems.