Aram, I'm 100% certain you mean well, but the part of the post you're quoting is not proposing to abandon perfect equality in favor of a minority group. My reading of the post is that there has never been an equality of chances in technical fields, and that astronomy is one of the few outliers in this regard. And based on his experience in the industry, Rob Pike's proposition is that a disproportional number of women have been forced away from tech careers despite their level of expertise, and that recalibrating the industry's view of the situation is a move towards that equality, and a clear long-term benefit for most everyone involved.