60 percent of hiring managers say they value skills over diversity

These sorts of polls are worthless because it depends on one's perception of the difference between "skilled" and "moderately skilled".

Societal inequalities definitely do exist.

But surely, objectively hiring developers based purely on skill guarantees a base level of diversity. So, you can't fault hiring managers for valuing skills over other parameters.

DEI goals have become increasingly more important, but it looks like more and hiring managers believe in hiring based purely on skills.