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Academic performance is one of the things known to the faculty (and the same between the "male" and "female" conditions); it is not the only one. The relevant question is: How much predictive power does the totality of the information provided have, and conditioned on that how much predictive power does the sex of the applicant have? It looks to me as if the answers, on any account of sex differences that I find credible, are "quite a bit" and "scarcely any".
By "academic performance" I was referring to all of these bullet points:
Which (from your summary) I understand is pretty much all of the information in the application letter.
I'm not claiming that sex differences have predictive power; I'm claiming that academic performance doesn't have as much power as we'd like and recruiters have to look for more info.
For sure. My apologies if I somehow gave the impression of disagreeing with that. The second half of what I called the "relevant question" above is of course the real key here, and it sounds as if maybe we agree about that.