Do you have internal metrics showing that women who ask are treated the same way? That women are convincingly told that it won’t jeopardize their offers as it likely has at other employees? This stuff is insidious and it doesn’t need to happen every time, everywhere to shape people’s decisions.

We don’t have any sort of metrics which are that personalised.

I’m not sure you’re arguing against who you think you’re arguing against. I’m not defending it, I’m simply sharing how it is at our place. There are a lot of issues, if you took a wild guess at the demography of our manager staff I'm fairly certain you would get it right.