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by mattbillenstein 3076 days ago
How did you accomplish this? Aggressive screening by gender at each phase of the hiring pipeline or just at the resume phase?
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> Aggressive screening by gender

That strikes me as somewhat euphemistic.

Assuming the pool is 80-90% male to start, to get to 50% I think one would have to be "aggressive" -- don't you?
I think GP meant that "aggressive screening by gender" is another way of saying "discrimination". In the US, I think that's technically true -- you can end up with a very different pool of hires than applicants, but you're vulnerable to lawsuits forcing you to defend the merit of the ones who were hired.