[angersock]

> Aggressive screening by gender

That strikes me as somewhat euphemistic.

[mattbillenstein]

Assuming the pool is 80-90% male to start, to get to 50% I think one would have to be "aggressive" -- don't you?

[smt88]

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.