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If you have only 25% of women, for example, in STEM.and you have a policy to have 50/50 male /female Engineers then that is to the disadvantage of male graduates, plus you are potentially not picking the best graduates based on their grades.
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OK so this is a true story. A few years ago Theresa May ordered companies to publish their wages gaps. So the HR departments in universities went to work to calculate their wage gaps. To their horror they found a large wage gap.
So it seems that the highest paid positions (Professors) skew male and the lowest paid positions (cleaners) skew female. How could this be? Could they be relentless bigots? Could the labour markets be skewed, it matters not, the wage gap does not care when the results are published. How to fix this? You can't sack the professors, that would be illegal and leave you with no university. You can't pull a load of female professors from no where. So what to do?
Well what some Universities did was remove the cleaners from the payroll and hire an external company to do the cleaning.
So by one form of analysis they shrank the wage gap which they can now brag about at cocktail parties and feminist award ceremonies.
By another form of analysis all they did was sack some working class women and call it a victory for equality.