It is easy to find any reason, likewise for any anti-discrimination policy in hiring. They are even trained to evade any possible recourse claims and they have

It is easy to find any reason, likewise for any anti-discrimination policy in hiring. They are even trained to evade any possible recourse claims and they have exact speech codes that inhibit any possible litigation with potential candidates. I hate this behavior because I know that any HR will never be truthful about how they perceive you, which is actually a huge penalty for many that are not too confident. What is unusual is HR discriminating by sex or race. It just seems unrealistic in todays world. Plus, I know HR did skip advertising some positions when laws were changed because my countries has lawyers specialized in sending warning letters to companies using the wrong terms de jure. Side effect was that some jobs were directly mediated through other employees. In my country there is a cultural divide between the public and private sector and these rules are mostly written by people from the former and it really shows.