No he isn't. The question is whether or not merit is the ultimate criteria for admissions. If gender is to be elevated above merit, all we've done is exchanged

No he isn't. The question is whether or not merit is the ultimate criteria for admissions. If gender is to be elevated above merit, all we've done is exchanged one form of discrimination for another. If what the article was talking about were a simple quota system, where they decided to admit X% men and Y% women, let the scores fall where they may, you might have a point. But that's not what they did. Instead, they changed the way they measured merit. For example, they focused recruiting on demonstrated general math and science ability rather than specific coding experience. That's a good move anyway (some of the worst programmers I know were 1337 h4xx0rz in high school, some of the best barely touched a keyboard until undergrad) but it also happens to yield a better gender balance.