The Tech Industry's Gender Gap Problem In One Photo

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Want to get a clear idea of the gender gap in the tech industry? Attend a tech conference.

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The Wall Street Journal's Greg Bensinger tweeted out a picture of the lines for the bathroom at this year's AWS reInvent conference:

Amazon itself just recently released its diversity data, and the numbers paint a pretty homogeneous picture: only 37% of Amazon's employees are women.

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Not that Amazon's alone. The workforces of Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Pinterest show similar patterns.