Why is gender diversity in tech so much easier to solve than racial diversity?

[Commentary] For one of the most innovative industries, tech's progress on diversity has been depressingly slow. The lack of blacks and Hispanics throughout the tech industry is far from the only diversity-related issue -- women are sorely underrepresented in all aspects of the tech industry, especially in technology positions.

Only 17 percent of the technology roles at Google and Microsoft are filled by women, and that number falls to 10 percent at Twitter. More companies must be willing to have these conversations before change can begin to take place. With so much of the world becoming dependent on technology, we can’t have one of the most powerful industries on Earth run without women, without different cultures, and without diversity. That isn’t good for technology, it isn’t good for the customers, it isn’t good for our society, and it definitely isn’t good for business.