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Never mind that the women in question would still have to actually be applying for said jobs. There's actually a term for what Brianna is calling for with Apple (and other companies) - tokenism. After all, who gives a shit if these people are actually qualified for their position or if you passed over more qualified candidates? Your percentages are up!
The problem is in the pipeline. Women simply aren't studying these things in proportional numbers. Maybe it starts as early as primary education. Maybe part of it is even people like Wu who spread terror about the idea of tech as a boy's club, with the perverse effect of actually discouraging girls from even starting at a young age.
It's even possible that once all artificial barriers are dismantled, men will still disproportionately prefer these fields, and at that point, you'd be artificially forcing the hiring of women into jobs they do not actually want in the first place via forced quotas as if numerically identical representation in literally everything represents equality of opportunity.
Also, if you do that artificially, the jobs aren't going to be done as well and it will be inefficient.
Trying to fix the problem at the very end, though, is never going to be effective.
If there's a steady stream of women graduates in STEM fields, they'll get jobs. It's as simple as that. These companies actually want to hire women and if anything, it's a bonus to a qualified woman.
Wu, someone who grew up a white boy, is not helping.