...left to their own devices most managers in any corporation—and surely most managers in a corporation that forbids sex discrimination—would select sex-neutral, performance-based criteria for hiring and promotion that produce no actionable disparity at all.
Yes, of course, it SURELY must be true because it just must be SURELY true. SURELY Spoken like a man with a lifetime job and who has SURELY managed not to ever actually listen to what another human being SURELY has said.