“Currently, women are 3 to 15 times more likely to be selected as members of the AAAS and NAS than men with similar publication and citation records.”
Though equality is generally a good thing, forced equity has never found to be advantageous in a society. When you are going to select a hospital in which you are going to get your heart surgery, do you choose the one that has the best outcomes? Or the best metrics on equity? Do you want the surgeon who is at the top of their field by merit, or top of their field by affirmative action? If going to war do you want your squad full of warriors or would you rather have an ethnically, gender, and opinion diverse group? Equal opportunity is a good thing, but not at the expense of outcomes. The way to address equality is to fix the opportunity barriers, not the definition of success.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2212421120
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00501-7