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Many bay area tech companies decided to push Diversity representation as a top issue. Many achieved results by lowering the bar for diverse candidates to get entry level positions.

3 years later, those same diversity candidates start to notice that on AVERAGE their diversity-segment gets paid less on average that white/asian males.

BUT what the statistics show is that the bar for white/asian males happened to be higher, because the diversity initiatives prevented them from being accepted for lower-tier jobs...the same jobs the company skewed towards diverse candidates. As such, they also were paid more on average, not due to discrimination but because their group was discriminated in getting the lower-paying jobs in the company.