[newsbinator]

Knowing about the gender balance wouldn't influence the final selection if you programmed the selection criteria not to be influenced by the gender balance.

The whole point of training and using machines is to make more accurate, more useful decisions in a complex world.

That can't happen if we give them data that isn't borne out by reality, or tell them to ignore data that is.

[anigbrowl]

If you have to change the terms of the question to give an answer, then I think I've made my point.