This is something you'd at least do a little research to demonstrate instead of just expecting people to accept, on faith, that "our company is 5% female becaus

This is something you'd at least do a little research to demonstrate instead of just expecting people to accept, on faith, that "our company is 5% female because of ladies' preferences", or things of that nature. I said "wildly different" on purpose, we're not talking about "your workforce is 45% female instead of 47% female" here. It really is big differences - like if you pull up a MS diversity report they're around 30% female when the US population is ~50% female. This is a big discrepancy. You can come up with lots of plausible explanations but if you want to be believed, shouldn't you have a little data? Or should we just shrug off the potential of massive inequality because it doesn't personally affect us as far as we know? What I see is a lot of people terrified of simply releasing the data because the data will look, in many cases, very bad. I think if people want to advocate against any sort of intervention - perfectly reasonable to not want intervention - they should be able to support their case with data.