I feel like their general counsel should not have allowed any of this to happen.<p>Under the Civil Rights Act &#x2F; Equal Opportunity law, race and gender are protected classes. So having your executives on record saying that &quot;white women&quot; are &quot;some of the biggest barriers to progress&quot; seems dangerous.<p>I&#x27;m not a lawyer, but when your employee tells Business Week that &quot;it is very hard to even interview people who are &#x27;white&#x27;&quot;, that seems like a legal disaster.<p>Replace &quot;white&quot; with any other color and notice how flagrantly racist and illegal that sounds. The law does not distinguish.<p>They need to fix this quickly.<p>They should assure people both internally and externally that hiring and promotion will be meritocratic, without regard to gender or race, and then ensure it actually happens that way.