The under representation exists even if we include all Asians employed at these companies - Twitter has for example a 29%/24% difference, Facebook is 24/19 when

The under representation exists even if we include all Asians employed at these companies - Twitter has for example a 29%/24% difference, Facebook is 24/19 when restricted to just non-tech role headcount. Yahoo comes in at 24/17 when similarly looking at just non-tech employees. The demographics of leadership actually get worse once you leave tech: Asians represent 0.8% of C-level roles, and 2.1% of board seats - against 5% in the general population. Tech is actually a relative bright spot when it comes to Asians in leadership roles. > "The real question is why they aren't more overrepresented in leadership." This really isn't the question at all. You're conflating two separate problems: over-representation of Asians in tech overall, vs. under-representation of Asians in progression of tech leadership. Both can be true simultaneously. Accepting the precondition that Asians are over-represented compared to the general population, their progression to leadership roles (from both tech and non-tech origins) suggests under-representation. i.e., based on the precondition we'd expect to see more Asian leaders in these companies. That the precondition exists is a fairly interesting problem itself, but largely separate from the argument of leadership. At the heart of it is the notion of equality - that two equal candidates get a fair shake at a promotion/role regardless of race. Regardless of whether or not leadership positions bias towards tech candidates or non-tech candidates, the gap exists - Asians are promoted/hired into leadership positions at a lower rate than their participation in the rest of the industry. This is particularly visible in professions where the advancement track is less vague and more straightforward - for example in law Asian-Americans represent 6.7% of associates, but only 1.8% of sr. counsel, and 1.7% of partners. This sort of gets at the original problem I brought up - that Asians have a problem, and are a problem. The over-representation of Asians in white collar professions is used as a bludgeon with which to attack other minorities, and used to invalidate real inequities within these professions such as whether or not they're being treated fairly when it comes to promotions and advancement. The Model Minority myth is damaging all around - to other races, to Asians themselves.