[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...
Tech has been meritocratic for decades with few exceptions.
Sample size of one, I worked in the past for a company whose entire staff was white men, 100%. Except for a single role: the receptionist at the front desk. There is no reasonable biological explanation for this extreme distribution.
As a side note, it's quite ironic that engineers often tend to complain about performance metrics and that they are being gamed, not really a good measure of merit..., but the same people turn around and argue that the everything should be a meriocracy.
It has almost never been about widening the size of the funnel, and almost always about putting the thumb on the scales for chosen people.
[1] https://www.creators.com/read/susan-estrich/03/14/whats-wron...