In most companies hiring anyone requires some form of prostration to HR, so a little extra work to hire a white male is not going to slow anyone down.

A friend of mine works in a large organization in which the head passed down a rule that only women would be hired for positions 'unless' the only available qualified candidate happened to be male.

Can you guess what happened? It hasn't increased the relative number of women hired but now everyone thinks the men are extra special.