It very will might be if companies catch flack every time they put something like this together and for some reason or another are not able to meet some Facebook commenter's preferred representation ratios.

You make it sound like alternatives are an either/or thing.

Here are other alternatives:

- nobody runs a panel for fear of backlash - panel entirely of telepathic octopods - a mixture of men and women biased towards men - a mixture of men and women biased towards women