“Where are the numbers?” Tracy Chou, a software engineer at Pinterest, asks in a blog post directed at tech companies withholding employee diversity data (including the one for which I am freelancing). How many women are working in tech, in engineering roles in particular? “The actual numbers I’ve seen and experienced in industry are far lower than anybody is willing to admit.” She offers Pinterest’s numbers: eleven women out of eighty-nine engineers. She says this is on par with the gender ratio of those graduating with CS degrees. “We have to be thoughtful about sourcing candidates and building the right culture, and we invest in deliberate efforts to connect with women in the community.”

I post it on the app’s Tech channel. A half hour later I receive an email from the contracted editorial lead: Hey, I got a complaint from HQ about that piece, so removed it. They didn’t love the critique. Plus, it’s not news, per se, and they want to keep it to hard-hitting news. Otherwise, great job with the picks today!