I'd be fine handicapping in the other direction if the raw scores empirically favored women.
There is nothing sacred about my personal opinion on how people do in interviews. I judge as objectively as I can, and that leads me to unfairly score women 0.5 points too low (based on hindsight and hired candidates' job performance).
There is plenty of scientific evidence saying that coding interviews are way more stressful for women, causing them to underperform on average. Not correcting for that would be sexist.
There is nothing sacred about my personal opinion on how people do in interviews. I judge as objectively as I can, and that leads me to unfairly score women 0.5 points too low (based on hindsight and hired candidates' job performance).
There is plenty of scientific evidence saying that coding interviews are way more stressful for women, causing them to underperform on average. Not correcting for that would be sexist.