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@hadip although it's one important piece, focusing solely on pipeline blatantly disregards our industry's horrendous retention issues

@triketora @hadip also, it isn't like most tech companies are getting near the gender ratio that schools are graduating

@jeffwjenkins @triketora that's untrue. Women = 18% of CS grads, 26% of software workforce (http://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/btn_02282014web.pdf …, http://www.ncwit.org/blog/did-you-know-demographics-technical-women …)

@hadip @jeffwjenkins not sure how that 26% was calc'ed but at most of the well known tech companies (google, fb, etc) it's ~15% incl non-eng

@hadip @jeffwjenkins ~15% in tech* incl non-eng

@triketora @jeffwjenkins Google 17%, LinkedIn 17%, Apple 20%, eBay 24%. (but all count some non-eng in there). I don't know NCWIT's source.

@triketora @jeffwjenkins It's impossible to hit 50% in workforce w/out getting pipeline there first. AND we must address culture too.

@hadip @jeffwjenkins i think i agree with the sentiment but i don't see why pipeline has to be first. speaking as a woman in industry now