Your statement is misleading, and I suspect intentionally so. Google is, reasonably, talking about blacks and Hispanics earning CS degrees.
You're changing the subject to broaden the topic to degrees in S&E -- that is, social sciences, psychology and behaviorial science, medical science, biological sciences, earth science and geology, atmospheric science, ocean science, etc. Few of those degrees lead themselves to careers in software engineering; Google isn't known to hire irrigation management or crop specialists to work on new search products.* That's why it makes more sense to talk about CS degrees specifically.
[* Yes, of course software engineers can come from any field, and we all know the self-taught high school dropout who can outprogram a Stanford CS PhD. But those are the exception, not the rule.]
You're changing the subject to broaden the topic to degrees in S&E -- that is, social sciences, psychology and behaviorial science, medical science, biological sciences, earth science and geology, atmospheric science, ocean science, etc. Few of those degrees lead themselves to careers in software engineering; Google isn't known to hire irrigation management or crop specialists to work on new search products.* That's why it makes more sense to talk about CS degrees specifically.
[* Yes, of course software engineers can come from any field, and we all know the self-taught high school dropout who can outprogram a Stanford CS PhD. But those are the exception, not the rule.]