One of the reasons I quit my last job (senior manager in an investment bank) is because of the pressure I was under to hire female technologists to make their d

One of the reasons I quit my last job (senior manager in an investment bank) is because of the pressure I was under to hire female technologists to make their diversity stats look better. The pipeline was 90% male, reflecting the choices that women make in school and university. We attempt to “correct” this imbalance at the hiring stage, and to do so at this late stage, we simply have to throw meritocracy in the bin. Horribly damaging in so many ways. Diversity quotas are patronising to female technologists. Quotas only serve to increase their sense of imposter syndrome, when women find out the bar was deliberately lowered for them. It is also damaging in the long term because it actually -creates- prejudice against women. Just awful all round. The DEI phenomenon is self-serving and divisive. Yet it has become a cottage industry right in the heart of our institutions. It needs to be robustly challenged and rejected.