https://www.aps.org/programs/education/statistics/aamajors.c...
Ill leave the interpretation up to you
I am sure those pointing out a pipeline problem are claiming it begins before college and those engineering degrees would be granted.
Or were you supporting the pipeline theory by showing how few candidates there actually are?
If a company hires x%, and there are y% graduates, then we have a pipeline problem if x=y, or is close to y.
If x is much smaller than y, then the pipeline doesn't explain the whole problem.
I am not taking a stance on the pipeline issue in the general case. It may or may not be a problem for particular companies on a case by case basis.
> Blacks made up 7 percent of U.S. high-tech workforce, and just 3 percent of the total Silicon Valley workforce.
4% of the degrees are granted to members of the AA community, 3% of the jobs in SV are given to them.
i guess SV companies recruit from the top graduates. it would be interesting to know the percentage of AA of say the top 10% graduates in the STEM fields.
as others have pointed out, this doesn't mean that things are OK. it just shifts the focus from the hiring companies to the education system
I agree the next question is what is the percentage of AA grads from top schools where they recruit before one makes a call on the prevalence of the pipeline problem.