Precisely the question. Why indeed?
Would you be more likely to hire a man than a women for an engineering role? Take the harvard implicit gender bias test for one answer: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
Would you be more likely to hire a man than a women for an engineering role? Take the harvard implicit gender bias test for one answer: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
Source: I did a bunch of them for my PhD, but my reading of the literature stopped in 2014.
If they are equally good, there's a good chance I'll choose the cheaper one.