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> I said nothing about matching engineering's gender distribution to the user base's.

Then why say this?

> women are on the order of half of their users.

[rosser]

Because if you're ignoring (by simply not hearing) the perspective of a meaningful representation of that ~half of your user-base, you do not, and probably can not understand them.

You don't need to have parity between those ratios, but you might want to do better than the "token diversity hire" — assuming you do at all.