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Diversity Strikes Back?

So, I'm laughing as I write this, for the life of me I cannot fathom how people cannot see how fundamentally philosophically flawed all this diversity non-sense is. Take this comment from a colleague from an internal platform... "Annual Women Diversity Increase: 8.5%. Technical Women Diversity Incerase? 3.8%. There's a problem here..." That was a direct paste so I'm leaving the misspelled word in there. I'll admit, it was click bait for me, so I followed the thread with the typical "this ought to be good" sentiment. The author goes on to point out that while our company has increased the percentage of women employed by 8.5% only 3.8% are in technical roles. She wants to know how management is going address this atrocity. So I have three answers (yeah I got upper management written all over me!): 1. We're going to force women whom apply for non-technical openings into technical jobs, whether they like it or not. That or we have to discrimina