> An evaluation also showed that employees had started to attach more importance to diversity.<p>Hm, how valuable... I would assume that the engineering approach would be to question the assumption that absence means discrimination. And perhaps they would point out the obvious that this university does discriminate on the basis of sex. Allegedly that is justified because discrimination happened in the past.<p>But the absence of women in engineering isn't due to discrimination. Of course some might not be on board with this. Also this already had the effect that the work of women is scrutinized to a far higher degree. There was imbalance before that too, but today it is on another level.
> And so the university turned to a more radical approach: making all vacancies for academic staff open only to women for six months, after which, men would be welcome to apply too<p>Well yeah, not really a surprise that most men aren't going to be on board with a policy of refusing to hire them based on their sex.<p>They say that the policy was a huge success, but they only seem to be judging it based on the number of women hired, which seems pretty tautological.