Giving Compass' Take:

• Rachel Gutman reports that even as diversity data has confirmed problems in the tech sector, change has yet to be made within organizations. 

• How can funders best work to increase diversity in tech? 

• Learn how increased diversity can fill the tech talent gap. 

That sexist culture matched an imbalance in “the sorts of opportunities” available to men and women, Tracy Chou says. But when she started working, she didn’t have the numbers to back up her sense that she and other women were being wronged. In 2013, she issued a call to action to the tech community to release real data about diversity. Apple, Facebook, and Google all released their first diversity reports the next year.

When the data did come out in 2014, they revealed that women were indeed especially underrepresented in those categories. The most recent reports from Apple, Facebook, and Google continue to show the same trend.

It’s easier for people to believe that they have created an environment that is great, and anybody who has problems with it is deficient ... The people who are at the top want to believe in meritocracy because it means that they deserve their successes.

That specific, well-documented lack of power is, according to Chou, holding Silicon Valley back from addressing its veritable plague of sexual harassment—perhaps even more so, she said, than Hollywood.

Despite the clear picture of underrepresentation painted by data that is now publicly available, Chou has seen little impetus for change.

Read the full article on diversity data in tech by Rachel Gutman at The Atlantic.