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"Asian Americans are still overrepresented in tech leadership positions."No, the article clearly states that they are under-represented. It cites 2015 report on diversity looking at 5 Silicon Valley companies: Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo. The report finds that, "Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels. Asian Americans (including Indians) are 27% of the workers in these companies, but only 19% of managers and 14% of executives. In contrast, whites represented 62% of professionals and 80% of executives in these firms."
> "We know that height is a significant factor in earning and in particular in getting to leadership positions. It's of comparable effect to the gender gap..."
Height being a "confounding variable" in discrimination against both Asians and women seems like an interesting theory, but it doesn't fit the facts from the article :"This is worse than the glass ceiling effect that’s been identified for women; in these five firms, men are 42% more likely to have an executive role than women, and white men and women are 154% more likely than Asians to hold an executive role. And Asians represent only 1.5% of corporate officer positions in the Fortune 500"
I am also reluctant to accept your stereotype of "short Asian men" (South and East Asian) without seeing any data specifically on the distribution of heights of American Asian males versus American white males. I suspect that the difference is not as large as you make it out be.