It is, but what I've found a bit funny about the entire recent 'diversity' discussion is that such things aren't already done as a matter of course.

We're in an industry where modeling, A/B testing, logging, trending and engineering for redundancy is implicit - except when it comes to hiring apparently.

If a load balancer assumed to split 50/50 was actually operating at 80/20 someone would notice. If a particular demographic were bouncing from the landing page at disproportionate rates, someone would figure out why.

Both problems would be broken down empirically and solved with a thorough post-mortem published on the company blog.

To this point, those same sort of issues applied to hiring have been largely addressed with "We've got to do better" and "The problem is upstream" with barely a word about how things managed to creep so far out of whack to begin with.

It's really refreshing to see admission of an actual (potential) problem and some of brains being applied to mitigate it directly.