It's hard to say exactly how much it means, but it's at least interesting to note that the people that "left the group" are all women and the people added to the group are all men.
Oh, wait, it's not just like that. It is that, because it happened.
The top position is taken by Nikesh who is the highest paid executive at Google. So Margo is definitely one of the highest paid VPs at Google.
How important is this position? Well, the last person, Dennis Woodside, now handles Motorola. And the guy before him became the CEO of AOL. Also, Margo is responsible for majority of revenue at Google.
This doesn't prove anything but I just wanted to add another data point to the discussion.
These are just the ones which are (finally) getting out to the world.
All of the "full birds" were up on stage, and it was a bunch of guys, just like the article reflects. Someone asked the question, and the brand new CEO threw the question to the (token?) female.
I swear her eyes almost glowed like one of those Stargate aliens for a moment before she took a breath and gave what must have been a well-rehearsed non-inflammatory answer.
This was a pretty big event: rolling out the new crew. A few thousand people saw it. Anyone else want to comment to back me up?