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The question that arises for me is how the changes affected the performance of the department, however that's measured (e.g. entrepreneurs, investment, placement, grants, average graduate salaries, etc.).

The outcome, good or bad, wouldn't necessarily reflect on the changed proportion of women; it might just as well indicate something about the particular measures they took to achieve it. For instance, they shifted focus more to potential than to prior experience; were their markers for potential the right ones? Were leadership, math, and science emphases balanced properly?

Getting more women into the program is a great start, but do they go on to be successful? Is leading with gender the right way to do it?