Hi people, just wondered if anyone else had come accross this kind of discrimination?

I work in oil and gas / engineering. A recruiter recently told me that if 100 people applied for a job and two of those applicants were female, the famales would get interviews EVERY TIME.

This is regardless of whether the woman were better or worse than their male counterparts.

The companies just want to be seen as diverse and to be able to have “we support women in engineering” on their advertisements because it looks good for marketing to a 2021 audience.

How is this equality?

Surely their efforts should be placed on making sure more women apply for the jobs in the first place. Instead of preventing two more talented / qualified male candidates from getting a position.