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Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by mjbh7k on Saturday February 06, 2016 @04:33PM (#11050016)
There are plenty of women of color applying for editor positions. Yet you go to the National Book Awards and the audience is predominantly white women and Daniel Handler makes jokes about watermelon on stage [1].

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/21/365707391/...

Re:GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and e... by Absentinsomniac on Saturday February 06, 2016 @05:50PM (#11050387)
Ya, but we don't even know if the racial disparity and gender disparity are affected by the same factors. I'm not arguing they don't exist I'm arguing for comprehensive evaluation instead of assumptions based on incomplete information. We can do better than a survey.