Even if that is true (and I guess I could believe it) there's still a difference between hiring competent cutthroat men under the table to do your dirty work and shooting yourself in the foot because a bigwig up top who understands nothing demands a certain percentage of your sailors be from a certain background, regardless of qualifications.
5th wave: Women are superior to men. They are entitled to special privileges and favoritism in the judicial system, and higher salary and more benefits for putting out less work. They are oppressed and taken advantage of constantly. Also. What is a woman???