Women get 18% of computer science degrees, so it seems doubtful that Google would get a 40/60 split in applicants. But the specific numbers are not the point o

Women get 18% of computer science degrees, so it seems doubtful that Google would get a 40/60 split in applicants. But the specific numbers are not the point of my comment. The issue is that if there is a lot of pressure to get a 50/50 workforce, but the pipeline is not 50/50, then favoring less qualified men over more qualified women becomes a possibility or even very likely, since how else are you going to achieve this? I think that it is up to those who desperately want a 50/50 workforce (just for tech, not for most of the other gender-imbalanced jobs) to make the case how they can do this without sexist discrimination in hiring or if they do favor sexism in hiring to make that explicit.