[qb45]

> much more diverse tech industry and a much more functional one.

As a Darwinist of sorts, I'm afraid that if this actually were true, we would be seeing some serious disruption of those nerds by much more functional diverse teams. The cat's been of the bag for so many years that somebody ought to have exploited it by now. But so far, it seems that one poster child example of a company which made tons of money bringing computing to the masses is Apple, under the lead of no one else but You Know Who, and (allegedly) with quite obsessive, arrogant, nitpicking and abrasive people working under him.

[ubernostrum]

The cat's been of the bag for so many years that somebody ought to have exploited it by now.

I'd like to send you over here: http://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/

And to the real-world examples of the market needing quite a long time to correct for sufficiently strong biases in the culture.