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That makes no sense.

Hire base purely on ability. Have expectations about the numbers of skin tones / vaginas in the outcome.

It reminds me of when GitHub had blind submissions for conference talks, expecting to get more women, then ended up cancelling the conference when it was all male talks that got chosen.

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In the same way that handedness has no bearing on programming ability. If your firm were staffed entirely by left-handed folk, it should rightfully raise questions about how that happened.

You seem overly defensive about your hiring process, and unsatisfied with any answer that asserts men and women are equal. Ironic, no?

But men and women are different.

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