Why can’t Silicon Valley solve its diversity problem? Maybe it’s the same reason the coal mining industry can’t solve its 99.9% male problem and why nine out of ten registered nurses are female. I think we need to just start forcing people into careers they don’t want to satisfy the pie chart people.

“The brogrammer culture, the hoodies, the flip-flops, the ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ type of vibe,” Stephanie Lampkin, the C.E.O. and founder of Blendoor, a “blind recruiting” app, said over the phone earlier this month, “I think is a significant contribution to why a lot of women and minorities have been pushed out.”

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