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by ivanca 4597 days ago
Even being 2:1 why would you expect those results being reflected anywhere else? Why would an employer hire from one of the two pools of people where one haves 50% less chance of being good enough for the position?
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If an employer just hired people with perfect SAT math scores, you'd expect a 2:1 distribution. If an employer just hired men, because they were twice as likely to have a high SAT math score, then the employer would be retarded because for both genders there is over a 99% chance that any given person will not have a high SAT math score.
Not a "high" but a better, and that's usually enough; and the gap seems to be increasing[0].

[0]http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/2012-sat-test-results-a-hug...