Tech Sector Diversity: More Rules May Not Be the Answer

Tech workers largely remain male and white. But increasing diversity is a complex issue that doesn’t have only one solution.

Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and other companies over the past few years have publicly released annual diversity reports that show that white men still outnumber women and minorities in their workplaces. That’s despite a former Google engineer’s recent allegations that the tech giant “goes to extreme—and illegal—lengths” to take “race and/or gender into consideration as determinative hiring factors, to the detriment of Caucasian and male employees.”

Employer-side representatives tend to agree that more federal regulation of government contractors isn’t one ...