I once had an SVP who required at least one woman be on every hiring panel. I thought this was to ensure women candidates got a fair shot and felt welcome. Soon I realized this was also to ensure only candidates able to work in a gender diverse workplace were hired.

It was amazing some of the rude and inappropriate things candidates would say to the women on the hiring panels. Things these candidates would never say to men.

And I don't know if that is because these candidates were simply in the habit of acting that way towards women or if they assumed these women wouldn't really have any power on the hiring panel or if they were testing to see if that behavior would be tolerated.

In any case, it was clear the women would get to see the candidate's true colors. I think about that all the time.