I hope this will help in reducing bias in the recruiting process, but your statement is a prime example that we just want to move the problem somewhere else in the career pipeline.

We won't achieve parity in the workplace simply because there is no parity in STEM programs (and particularly in Computer Science).

So, if everything was done w/ IA, I would just force a 50/50 split for employees to encourage girls to take up coding classes (at the tiny expense of coding abilities).

If the training set for your payroll AI is biased, your payroll AI will end up biased too.