Indeed, I was just reading about a local software shop that managed to increase its rate of hiring female engineers to over 40% without any quota system. One of

Indeed, I was just reading about a local software shop that managed to increase its rate of hiring female engineers to over 40% without any quota system. One of the simple tricks they use is to ensure there's always a woman involved in the job advertising/interviewing/hiring process. Note that most companies are lucky if they can reach 20% for female engineer hires (and certainly from experience, it's rare to get even 25% of applicants be female, which is at least partly an issue of implicit biases in the education system).