Demand side here at a non-PhD granting institution.
We received virtually no pressure to hire a female. We had to "consider people from different backgrounds". Which, given the make-up of graduates, is pretty easy to do. If you put together a list of your 20 favorite candidates, there are bound to be some womentrue
and minorities in it.
not true
Quoted poster here. We count Asians as minorities. So it is definitely not a problem. It is obviously not a problem to find some Chinese candidates worth interviewing. And usually a couple South Asians as well. More often than not, we will have a Hispanic or Black candidate on our shortlist. But we don't try for any of these. Last time a Black candidate was interviewed, I had no idea he was Black until he walked into the room.
We just write in our report that we interviewed a decent balance of women and men and people of various ethnicities and national background and our institution is happy.
FWIW, we are an institution with a lot of talk of "social justice". And we hire a decent number of women, because there are lots of qualified women candidates.
To me it's a lesson that this can be done right. The only institutional pressure is "are you guys sure you don't have any racial or gender bias in your hiring? Ok, carry on then."