This year, GitHub did that for a conference, letting people submit talks and compete for selection completely stripped of identifying info.

The only people selected were men.

That conference was canceled because it didn’t stand with Github’s stance on diversity, etc.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868

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Companies actively do the exact opposite because they need/want more diversity. It’s absolutely not like the music world where a large amount of women play instruments... the number of women in CS professionally is low. The number of female CS graduates is and has been low.

Simply stripping info doesn’t mean anything if at the end of the day a diversity agenda has to be met.