“Employee demographics are “diverse,” sort of—I would guess, based on a visual survey of the cafeteria at lunchtime, that about a third of the staff is South Asian, a third is East Asian, and a third is white.” This part of the article bothered me. Why was diverse placed in quotation marks? Aren’t South Asians and East Asians considered minorities? Also South Asians are a very diverse group in it itself. As are East…
"Employee demographics are “diverse,” sort of—I would guess, based on a visual survey of the cafeteria at lunchtime, that about a third of the staff is South Asian, a third is East Asian, and a third is white. The workers are overwhelmingly male."
"Overwhelmingly male" is an obvious counterpoint the author is making to the ethnicity distribution and by itself explains the quotation marks.
Everyone is free to read in additional subtext but your question can be answered solely by not dropping the second sentence of the author's.