I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity

Good article, but I was disappointed by her implying that "women lack energy". That's too broad a statement. The women she hired may have lacked energy but you can't generalize based on that small sample.

I agree that we need to fix the problem at the source, i.e., encourage more girls (actually, kids in general, why limit it to girls?) to be interested in tech while they are still in middle and high schools.

There is ample evidence that there is a cultural problem in the United States in this regard. The 2015 stackoverflow survey has this interesting statement: "Developers in India are 3-times more likely to be female than developers in the United States." See https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015 Actually it is worse than it sounds because most of the female developers in the United States are first generation immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe. So there is something in the US culture that makes American women not want to take up tech.

The diversity memo doesn't address the fact that more women take tech jobs when impediments are removed, as evidenced by the larger percentage of women in tech jobs in other countries.