Silicon Valley continues to be an iridescent beacon of male whiteness just like it was when the tech industry began some thirty odd years ago. Google, one of the largest tech companies in the nation and the world, had hesitated to release its workforce statistics, perhaps because of the picture it may paint about the company. After all, numbers rarely lie, and though the companies have been attempting to their part, sometimes they seem blind not only to color but the structural hardships experienced by certain demographic groups.

Google released their demographic data on Wednesday via a blog post by Lazlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations. The data proves what many already know: Google is mostly male and mostly white, with Asians coming as a not so close second.

Demographically, Google is 60 percent white, 30 percent Asian, three percent Latino and two percent black. Also, the company is mostly male, with 70 percent of them making up Google employees. Mother Jones extensively studied Google's information and correlated it with other information. The information, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act, reveals that Google's demographic disparities go deeper.

Despite the overall statistics released by Google, Mother Jones adds that men hold 84 percent of tech jobs and, of those men, 94 percent are white and Asian. Silicon Valley statistics for top executive positions are similar, with more than 75 percent being both white and male.

Google, like other Silicon Valley companies, say their demographics reflect the available workforce from whom they can hire and it is true that minorities rarely go into math and science areas. Women only make up 18 percent of computer science graduates in the country. Yet, other issues lurk beneath the statistics, after all, there must be some reason for the disparity.

As past reports show, there is a deep educational gap within the nation's education system. The statistics released by the Department of Education earlier this year revealed that students of color are disciplined with greater severity than their white classmates and receive less educational opportunities. According to The Nation, "a quarter of the schools with the highest percentage of black and Latino students did not offer Algebra II."

The Nation also notes that a third of the abovementioned schools did not offer chemistry. And, though chemistry is not a tech industry must, these statistics reveal greater structural discrepancy in the education system. How are students of color able to enter these areas if they cannot even study Algebra II or other science courses?

Granted, that is not Google's fault but it ought to acknowledge how the workforce pool it fishes from is created. If it intends to change its demography, as Bock states, then it ought to push legislators in states and at the federal level to reform the nation's education, rather than seeking workers from abroad.

Fox News Latino reports that Google has been making strides to correct the gap within its workforce and Silicon Valley overall. It has given more than $40 million, since 2010, to organizations to increase the number of women in computer science programs, and it will work with the Kapor Center for Social Impact to close the gender and ethnic gaps in the Silicon Valley workforce.

"It is a big deal for them to be transparent about something that most companies haven't in the past been willing to share," Iris Gardner, a manager at nonprofit Code2040 told Fox News Latino. Her organization places high performing black and Latino software engineering students in internship with top tech companies.

However, the struggle to stabilize the discrepancy is real and complex, running much deeper than just numbers on a pie chart. No one is expecting every person of color to be part of the tech industry; however, we must make the opportunity available for them to have that option and it must start with education at the lowest levels.