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"Since the population is split 50-50% between men and women you should expect the same balance to exist at the top. "

Why? If getting to the top were pure chance, then sure. Otherwise you are assuming that men and women are, in all ways relevant to getting to the top, identical, and that's not established.

"[H]ow could you sensibly object to a school of though that wants to gain equality for women?"

Because people have widely varying ideas on what "equal" means.



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