To be clear, that's not my logic, it is of my previous employer. I don't think trying to index hiring decisions to the broad population distribution is a good t

To be clear, that's not my logic, it is of my previous employer. I don't think trying to index hiring decisions to the broad population distribution is a good thing. But if you HAD to index to a population distribution, I think it should be tied to the pipeline of competent candidates. However, my previous employer was already fairly representative of the pipeline in the summer of 2020. The protests that summer sent a cultural shockwave in urban/upper-ish class society, and the social pressure ratcheted up for orgs to favor non-white male groups, particularly for one particular non-white group. The issue was that this particular non-white group was not overly abundant in the pipeline, so there wasn't as defensible of a position for the discriminatory policies the company felt they had to put in place, so they resorted to indexing to the broad US population. (which I flat out don't think is defensible myself, but I'm empathizing with the mindset that they were employing at the time)