Which leads to the question: did more men have talent?
Some are well aware of this and fully take advantage of the situation, playing damsel in distress, some even manipulate their more socially/sexually frustrated male colleagues into doing their work for them and covering for them.
If you're hiring to fill out a 4 person tech team and you've got 3 men, and a quota 50% male/female split, would you say men have an equal chance at the job. Or less of a chance?
Being intellectually honest, you will admit the criteria for the men in that case are harder, or perhaps impossible to achieve.
If the criteria for one sex are significantly harder (impossible without gender affirming care) then the criteria for the other sex are easier.