"Half a century after the introduction of blind auditions, in which candidates are heard from behind a screen, women make up just over 47 percent of players in American ensembles"
I wonder how close the proportion has to be to 50% to satisfy the New York Times.
In general, the NYT is trying to build a case for discrimination based on flimsy evidence of discrimination, as I pointed out.
I'm a woman and HN is an overwhelmingly male forum. I get quite a lot of downvotes at times on some subjects simply for representing the minority view.
Sometimes, it isn't them per se. Sometimes, it's everyone else.
(Though, granted, I have worked really, really hard at figuring out how to make certain points in a way that does fly here. So it can be done, but, wow, is it just tons and tons and tons of work.)