The unequal pay policies cited in the article (quoted below) were wrong, but "hire X because X are cheaper" is a powerful mechanism for increasing the demand an

The unequal pay policies cited in the article (quoted below) were wrong, but "hire X because X are cheaper" is a powerful mechanism for increasing the demand and ultimately the pay for group X. The article decries British tech's sexist past, but are women are a larger fraction of Britain's tech workforce today? '“Equal pay for male and female workers is unlikely to be accepted by industrial concerns,” he wrote in one, urging employers to hire women, and “because female clerks can be obtained at a cheaper price than males, and may be just as good if given the same opportunities and training, it should be your policy to employ them wherever possible.”'