A prime job opens up, and the person who's discussed as an excellent choice happens to be on maternity leave for the next four months. She gets passed over. Is that legal? Well, it just happened at AOL and Techcrunch.

At first, you could get excited about a graphic representation of influential women in tech. And then you read the text.

Michelle Greer, a web marketing strategist, made the mistake of commenting on Tech Crunch's article in response to the lack of females in tech. And she got reamed out.

Can we have a conversation about change and diversity that doesn't devolve into defensiveness and namecalling by the people in charge? We'll tell you when it happens. The latest example concerns women in tech. But there's a silver lining.