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They are all for gender equality, except when...
Except when you cannot find any female candidates to apply for your openings, so you go to a conference to do ad-hoc interviews.
Purely coding, gender may have no relationship to individual code quality.
The desire to have diverse teams comes from studies that show a correlation between team diversity and making better decisions. A team with diverse backgrounds is likely to consider more options and bring up more concerns. That is important when doing design work or code review.
If you cannot find (female) candidates for an opening, maybe it is time to re-evaluate the jobs you are offering, and how you are doing this.
I agree. HR is constantly trying to train managers to write more inclusive job descriptions. I also wonder how many female candidates are lost in pre-screening.